Kurdistan Press Agency
Kurdistan
Jailed human rights activists taken to hospital
Iranian-Kurdish human rights activist Mohammad Seddigh Kaboodvand, has been transferred to hospital by Iranian prison authorities after spending nearly five years in Tehran's Evin Prison.
Human Rights
Iran
Iran sentences U.S. citizen to death
Iranian Revolutionary Court 15 sentenced U.S. citizen Amir Mirzai Hekmati accused of spying and attempting to accuse Iran of terrorism to death, Fars news agency reported.
Iran
Iran's Secret Executions: Findings Challenge Judiciary's False Narrative
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published the first public list of 101 victims of secret group executions in Vakilabad Prison today. The Campaign called on the Iranian Parliament and judiciary to immediately institute a…
Iran
"Dezfool Prison Inmates Are Treated Like Animals"
A local source in Ahvaz told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Saeed Saki, a political prisoner and an Ahvaz Arab activist who was previously held in Karoon Prison of Ahvaz, was transferred to Dezfool prison two…
Kurdistan
Iranian Kurds denounce civilian bombings in Turkey
Iranian Kurds gathered in front of the Turkish embassy on Wednesday in Tehran to protest the killing of Kurdish civilians in Turkey.
Iran
Pakistan charges Iranian border guards with murder
Pakistan police on Tuesday charged three Iranian border guards with the murder of a Pakistani man shot dead on Sunday in a cross-border attack in the country's southwest.
Iran
Iranian Women's Rights Activist Sentenced To Three Years In Jail
The appeals court in Mazandaran Province, has upheld a three year prison sentence for women's rights and Campaign activist, Fereshteh Shirazi. The sentence was issued in preliminary court hearings by Judge Hassanzadeh in the northern city…
Kurdistan
Fatal Turkish airstrikes on Civilians killed 35 Kurds
Turkish warplanes targeting members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party instead killed 35 civilians, triggering protests that may undermine government efforts to end unrest.
Iran
5 girls under 10 years of age married in southern Iranian province
The head of the General Department for Registration of Documents said that five girls under 10 year of age were married in the Province of Hormozgan (South of Iran).
Iran
Iran sentences opposition figure to jai
Iran has sentenced Ebrahim Yazdi, the head of a banned opposition party and a former foreign minister, to eight years in prison for "attempting to act against national security," his lawyer said Wednesday.