This week’s Pendant update includes Women’s rights violations in Kurdistan which consists of: Suspicious death of two young girls and one woman in the cities of Marivan, Mahabad Three young girls commit Suicide in the cities of Bokan,…
The left-over landmines from the Iran-Iraq war still haunt residents of Eastern Kurdistan where much of the 8-year war took place.
Despite Hassan Rouhan’s promise, since his election to Iran’s presidency in 2013, to loosen social and cultural restrictions, the Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi says he has seen no changes since Rouhani’s election.
It is believed the Iranian authorities have executed about 700 people in six months, according to Amnesty International.
Amnesty International urged Iranian authorities to grant Saman Naseem , a Kurdish political prisoner on death row, a full and fair retrial.
Following a series of acid attacks on women in the Iranian city of Isfahan in 2014, similar attacks are reported in the Kurdish city of Bokan in Wurme (West Azerbijan) Province.
In a column on Commentary Magazine on the 26th anniversary of Vienna murder, Michael Rubin former Defence Department official accuses Iran of complicity in Vienna Murder.
Despite numerous calls over the past year by human rights organizations to include concerns about Iran’s human rights violations in the negotiation, the deal was reached without it.
This week’s Pendant report consists of one case of female suicide in Kurdistan and updates on the conditions of two female political prisoners in other parts of Iran.
The suicide rate is skyrocketing among the youth in Kurdistan, the latest being four suicide attempts resulting in the death of three.
Kurdistan Press Agency
