One of the members of the Democratic Union's Central Council of Kurdish Students was sentenced to one suspended year sentence by the Revolution Court in Sanandaj (The Capital of Kurdistan province in Iran).
The death penalty for minors and death by stoning have been omitted from the Islamic Republic's penal code after years of review and reform of the penal laws.
Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to respect freedom of assembly and allow peaceful protests on February 14 amid fears that authorities may once again use excessive force to quell protests, as in previous years.
Marivan's Friday prayer leader, Mamusta Mostafa Shirzadi, who is a main player in the twisted case of Loqman and Zanyar Moradi, is not willing to make any public comments about the case of the two young men who have been sentenced to death.…
Kurdpa _ A German reporter says he was beaten by guards during his nearly five months of imprisonment in Iran and that he heard constant, "horrible cries" of other inmates being tortured.
Two leading Iranian sociologists have warned that the incidence of violent and domestic crime has reached an explosive level, mostly a consequence of economic hardship.
Kurdish prisoner Esmail Kermanjani, around 30 years old, was executed on Wednesday, January 25th at Evin prison.
Almost 100 days have passed of the detention of cultural activists in Sanandaj (East of Iran) by the Islamic Republic security forces and they are still in custody.
Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that the supreme court has confirmed website designer Saeed Malekpour's death sentence. His family said the court took the decision under pressure from the Revolutionary Guards. A Canadian…
The Asadis came to the United States from Iran as political refugees. The family now lives in Mesa and said they can never go back to their homeland.
Kurdistan Press Agency
