Due to forest fires in the Marakhel and Bozini regions of Paveh, which were caused by the Iranian regime as part of their terrorist acts in Kurdistan, unfortunately three environmental activists lost their lives. On June 28, 2020, Mukhtar Kandani, […]
In a statement, the Central Command of Kurdistan’s Peshmerga Forces announced that heavy clashes erupted between a Peshmerga unit and Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on June 24, 2020, in the Halgurd Mountains. According to the statement, a […]
In a statement released on the June 24, PDKI announced that Hedayat Abdullahpour, a Kurdish political prisoner, has been executed by the Iranian regime. Hedayat Abdullahpour was sentenced to death by Iranian Supreme Court on October 8, 2018. Abdullahpour was […]
In the early hours of Wednesday, June 17, 2020, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) directed heavy artillery fire at the basses of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan. For the second day in a row, the IRGC continued shelling the […]
On Thursday, May 28, 2020, Osman Mustafapour, a Kurdish political prisoner, who was imprisoned for 28 years by the Iranian Islamic regime, returned to his friends and fellow party members. He was welcomed by a high-ranking delegation of the Democratic […]
On December 17, 1945, the military forces of PDKI overtook the last Iranian military barrack in Mahabad and raised the Kurdish national flag. The Peshmerga Forces of Kurdistan was established on the same day. The word “Peshmerga”, which in Kurdish […]
Today marks the 27th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Sadegh Sharafkandi, former leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Fatah Abdoli and Homayoun Ardalan – the party’s representatives in Europe and Germany, respectively – and Nouri Dehkordi, a […]
The PDKI’s Foreign Relations Office sends an open letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Sweden and Norway in order to highlight some of the human rights violations carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran against the […]
Today marks the 74th anniversary of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan. The 74th anniversary of PDKI was celebrated at one of the party’s bases in Kurdistan. The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) was founded in the city of […]
UNPO, together with its partners at the University of Oxford and Tibet Justice Center, has launched the report: ‘Compromised Space: Bullying and Blocking at the UN Human Rights Mechanisms’. The report documents how China, Russia, Iran and other repressive regimes […]
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