Three UN human rights experts urge the Government of Iran to abandon its efforts to enact a new law that would effectively isolate the country from the global internet. The Iranian Parliament may soon ratify the “Regulatory System for Online […]
Mustafa Hijri, the current leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) issued a statement on the occasion of International Mother Language Day. In his statement, Hijri regards the Kurdish language as a central component of the Kurdish national […]
On Thursday, February 4th 2021, a court in Antwerp, in Belgium sentenced Assadollah Asadi to 20 years in prison for his role in plotting a terrorist attack in 2018. Asadi is an Iranian terrorist who was working as a diplomat […]
Zara Mohammadi, Kurdish civil society activist and teacher, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Iranian regime. Mohammadi is the director and co-founder of the Nojin Cultural Association, a civil society association that is focused on various […]
The 13th of July marks the 31th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. A. R. Ghassemlou, one of the prominent leaders of the Kurdish nation and former General-Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), along with his aide […]
UN human rights experts expressed outrage at reports of Iran’s secret execution of Hedayat Abdollahpour. “We condemn the execution of Hedayat Abdollahpour in the strongest terms,” the independent experts said. “Any death sentence undertaken in contravention of a State’s obligations […]
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 […]
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