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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Arrested a Kurdish Activist

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Arrested a Kurdish Activist

Revolutionary Guard soldiers arrested a Kurdish activist by the name of Azad Husseini in the Gameshgoli village in Iranian Kurdistan. A witness told Kurdistan Media that before the Revolutionary Guards… Read more »

Iran’s Intelligence Service Threatens Kurdish Religious Figure

Iran’s Intelligence Service Threatens Kurdish Religious Figure

Kurdistan Press Agency reports that Iran’s Intelligence Service brought in a Kurdish religious figure in Sanandaj for interrogation and threatened him to stop his activities. Abdullah Abbasi, who is a… Read more »

Kurdish Student Denied University Studies for Protesting Executions

Kurdish Student Denied University Studies for Protesting Executions

Kurdistan Press Agency reports that Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence has issued an order banning Kurdish student activist Hiwa Tase from continuing his university studies. In an interview with the news… Read more »

Iran Uses Machine to Amputate Prisoners Fingers

Iran Uses Machine to Amputate Prisoners Fingers

One of Iran’s official press agencies published photos showing the public amputation of a thief’s fingers. These show a man getting his finger chopped off with a machine resembling a… Read more »

Two Kurdish Journalists Among Eleven Arrested in Tehran

Two Kurdish Journalists Among Eleven Arrested in Tehran

According to reports elven journalists, among them two Kurdish journalists, have been arrested in Tehran after being accused of cooperation with foreign-based media outlets. The eleven journlists, who were taken… Read more »

Reza Sherifi Bokani Was Transferred to Evin Prison

Reza Sherifi Bokani Was Transferred to Evin Prison

Kurdish political prisoner Reza Sherifi Bokani has been transferred from Rejai Shar prison in Karaj to Evin Prison in Tehran. According to reports Bokani told his fellow political prisoners in… Read more »

Kurdish Man Arrested in Hawraman

Kurdish Man Arrested in Hawraman

Kurdistan Press Agency reports that that a Kurdish man by the name of Mohammad Kerimi, who is originally from the village of Sero Piri in the Hawraman region of Iranian… Read more »

Kurdish Activist from Salmas Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

Kurdish Activist from Salmas Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

An Iranian Revolutionary Court in the Kurdish city of Salmas has sentenced the Kurdish activist, Farhad Panirak, to five years in prison. Panirak is originally from Broshkhovaran village outside Salmas…. Read more »

PDKI Celebrated 67th Anniversary of the Republic of Kurdistan

PDKI Celebrated 67th Anniversary of the Republic of Kurdistan

The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) celebrated the 67th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Peshawa Hall in Hawler, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, on the… Read more »

Revolutionary Guards Killed a Kurdish Citizen in Rabat

Revolutionary Guards Killed a Kurdish Citizen in Rabat

On Tuesday Iranian revolutionary guard soldiers killed a Kurdish man by the name of Ismail Sherefi in the town of Rabat in Iranian Kurdistan. According to the news agency Sherefi,… Read more »

Kurdish Student Activist Stages a Hunger Strike

Kurdish Student Activist Stages a Hunger Strike

An imprisoned Kurdish student by the name of Naser Naseri started a hunger strike in the prison of Mahabad due to bad conditions in the prison. Naseri was arrested and… Read more »

PDKI’s Head of Foreign Relation Spoke at Al Jazeera Conference

PDKI’s Head of Foreign Relation Spoke at Al Jazeera Conference

Earlier this year, Al Jazeera Center for Studies organized, in collaboration with the Iraqi Center for Strategic Studies, a conference on the Kurdish issue in all parts of Kurdistan. The… Read more »

Kurdish Student Activist Arrested in Paveh

Kurdish Student Activist Arrested in Paveh

Iran’s intelligence service arrested a Kurdish student activist in the city of Paveh. Kurdistan Press Agency reports that Hemn Ajend was arrested on Sunday 20, January. According to news agency… Read more »

Five People Killed by Grenade in Ilam

Five People Killed by Grenade in Ilam

An grenade in the Kurdish province of Ilam’s Malekshahi County caused the deaths of five family members. Two other members of the same family got injured as a result of… Read more »

Yet Another Kurdish Courier Killed in Baneh

Yet Another Kurdish Courier Killed in Baneh

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard killed yet another Kurdish courier outside the Kurdish city of Baneh. Kurdistan Press Agency reports that revolutionary guard soldiers opened fire on a Kurdish courier by the… Read more »