Kurdistan Press Agency
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.
Human Rights
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.
Kurdistan
Per 48 hours a Kurdish citizen is being killed or wounded
On average over the past 3 months, per 48 hours one of the on-foot traders – those who carrying goods on their backs across the border- in the Iranian Kurdistan border has been killed or wounded by the security forces of the regime of…
Iran
Iranian woman to face death by stoning or hanging
An Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery could be hanged instead, the students news agency ISNA reported.
Human Rights
Syrian city 'under siege' by army
Residents in the Syrian city of Homs are calling for western intervention, as activists say the area has come under renewed attack from forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
Kurdistan
Ten prisoners were executed in Iran
According to reliable sources from Iran ten prisoners were executed in two different prisons in Iran, early morning on December 24.
Iran
Man hanged in public despite critical condition
The public execution for a prisoner was carried out on the dawn of Saturday in the Danesh Square in Shahre Kord even while the prisoner needed urgent medical attention.