Iran: Release and Provide Urgent Medical Care to Jailed Activist

Mohammad Sadigh Kaboudvand May Have Suffered Stroke; Family Claim He is Not Receiving Adequate Health Care – Human Rights Watch report

Kaboudvand needs an immediate and thorough assessment of his worsening condition. Denying a prisoner necessary medical care is both cruel and unlawful. Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch

(New York) – The Iranian Judiciary should provide urgent medical care to Mohammad Sadigh Kaboudvand and free him from his unfair detention, Human Rights Watch said today. Kaboudvand, a leading advocate of Kurdish rights in Iran, is serving an 11-year sentence on politically motivated charges. He suffered what may have been a stroke on July 15, 2010, and his family says he is not getting the medical attention he needs. Read more

Iran/Iraq: Iranian Attacks Should Not Target Iraqi Civilians

Villagers Allege Artillery Shelling, Attacks on Livestock Intended to Clear Border Are

Zeyneb Bayezidi, Kurdish human rights detainee on hunger strike in Iranian prison

ZANJAN PRISON, Iran, — Zeyneb Bayezidi who has been held in Zanjan prison for the last two years, staged a hunger strike due to the bad situation of the Iranian prisons for female prisoners.

According to “Mukryan News Agency” Zeyneb’s mother revealed that her daughter is on strike to condemn the dreadful situation for women in Zanjan Prison.

Miss. Bayezidi is a Kurdish woman who was working with Kurdistan Human Right organisation and the Campaign of one million signatures. She was arrested two years ago and sentenced for four year by Mahabad Court in Eastern Kurdistan and she was then exiled to Zanjan.

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KHRP and Amnesty International have grave concerns about Iran’s impending executions of Kurdish Political Prisoners

Amnesty International has made a new call to the Iranian authorities to immediately halt all executions and commute all death sentences as concern grows about two women and other prisoners who may be at imminent risk of execution. The organization is also urging the authorities to review and repeal death penalty laws, to disclose full details of all death sentences and executions, and to join the growing international trend towards abolition.
Two women are feared to be at imminent risk of execution. Zeynab Jalalian, a political activist and member of the Kurdish minority , was sentenced to death in early 2009 after being convicted of “enmity against God”, while Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, whose conviction of “adultery while being married” was upheld in May 2007, could be executed by stoning at any time.
Prisoners on death row are often not informed when they are due to be executed until the last minute, adding to their suffering and that of their families. Sometimes their lawyers are not informed 48 hours in advance, as is required by Iranian law. Read more

Anatolian news agency publishes disinformation for international press, relating to detention of Kurds in Syria

We have reported the arrest and detention of many Kurds in Syria since the shootings at the Newroz celebrations in al-Raqqa, Syria on 20 March 2010. Approximately 100 people have been detained recently and this brings the total number of supporters of the political organisation PYD who have been detained to over 400.

News of the number of arrests reaching 400 was released by Quds Press – International News Agency, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on 26 June 2010.

This information was not picked up by news agencies until today when a distorted version of events was reported by the Turkish Anatolian news agency in an article that claimed that 400 Kurdish PKK members had been arrested, and others killed during street clashes: http://www.aa.com.tr/en/syria-detains-400-people-in-operations-against-terrorist-pkk.html Read more

Call for help to trace Kurd from Syria, currently in prison in Iran – whereabouts unknown.

According to the Media Institute of West Kurdistan Society, the fate of the Kurdish freedom fighter Ramadan Muslim Ahmed has been unknown since his arrest in 2008. His nickname is Kamal Kobani; he was born in Kobani, Syria in 1981, and his mother is Zuhayda.  He was captured as he crossed the Iranian border, when he was seriously injured after the Iranian forces fired at him.

He had an unjust trial and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. He wounds were not dressed and his family were not allowed to see him.  His parents have expressed fears for his life.

The family appeals to human rights organizations and the Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran to intervene to allow them to visit their son in detention in a Tehran prison. They ask them to ensure that the authorities are providing him with the necessary treatment, and to enable him to ensure proper application of the law so that he can benefit from his legal rights to defend himself in the court.

Media Institute of West Kurdistan Society

16 June 2010

KHRP calls for Iran to end their cross-border attacks

KHRP calls on Iran to halt their cross-border bombardments in the wake of increased shelling and aerial bombings of northern Iraq .

According to media reports, at least 180 Kurdish families from the provinces of Pishdar, Qaladizah and Choman have been forced to flee from their homes due to the constant shelling of the region from the Iranian army, which reportedly continued over several days.

These assaults are the latest in a recent series of aerial and artillery bombardments carried out by the Iranian and Turkish militaries. Turkey began increasing troop deployments to the border regions in early March, and in May carried out its largest aerial bombing operation for 18 months, prompting speculation that it might once again be preparing for wide-scale ground-incursions into northern Iraq . Iran has also recently intensified its routine cross-border shelling of the region in the wake of fighting on its border. Read more

A 14-Year Old Girl Killed and 65 Families Fled in Iranian Shelling of Kurdistan

A 14-year old girl, Basoz Jabar Agha, was killed Sunday morning as a result of Iranian artillery bombardment of the border region between Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan, according to the officials of the Kurdistan Regional Government(KRG).

Rudaw reporter said that the Iranian forces shelled the Kurdish regions of Haji Omeran, Ibrahim Shilan between from 09:00 until 10:00 am Sunday. Read more

Kurdish PEN Centre regarding the execution of the patriot intellectuals of Kurdistan in Eastern part of our homeland

We at the Kurdish PEN Centre believe that the killing and execution of freedom loving intellectuals who follow a peaceful path to practice their rights is a horrific act very far from the principles of humanity.

According to the known international standards such acts can only be committed by totalitarian oppressive regimes.

The execution of five heroic Kurdish freedom loving individuals by the Iranian regime has caused another shock to the world’s public opinion.

Ferzad Kemanger was a teacher in villages of East Kurdistan, passionately teaching his community’s children how to read and write. His love to humanity was endless and without prejudice. Read more

Iran: Executed Dissidents ‘Tortured to Confess’

At Least 17 More Kurdish Prisoners at Risk of Imminent Execution

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