A Kurdish student by the name of Mohammed Islamian was killed in the Kurdish city of Bokan by unknown individuals three days ago. Friends of Islamian believe that agents of Iran’s security services killed him.
Islamian was expelled from his university after that he participated in the making of movie about the gas attacks on the [...]
According to a student organization in Iranian Kurdistan twelve Kurdish university students have been summoned to integrations in the Kurdish city of Umrye.
The students are being interrogated because of their participation in protests against the death of Ehsan Jarbi who died after a gas explosion in his dormitory.
At least 2 other students, by the names [...]
According to information from the Kurdish city of Mehabad, twenty Kurdish activists face prison sentences due to their participation in the general strike that were staged to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the assassination of the Kurdish leader Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghassmlou, on the 13 of July 2009.
These twenty activists urged merchants close down their [...]
Yesterday members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps clashed with a large group of Kurdish civilians in the Kurdish city of Sardasht.
The clash erupted after that information about how members of the IRGC had stolen money from the local population, according to information form the city a group of IRGC members have stolen 25 million [...]
Read: Iran faced a display of rare international unity today when the UN’s nuclear watchdog demanded it halt work on a secret uranium enrichment plant whose exposure highlighted concerns that the country is seeking nuclear weapons.
Read: Gordon Brown warned Iran must quickly demonstrate a change of heart to prevent the United Nations imposing more [...]
Yesterday I meet with the Labour Party’s International Manager, Jo Billingham, and the Kurdish Human Rights Project’s Chief Executive Kerim Yildiz in London. See pictures below:
From the SI website:
The Socialist International’s second Council meeting of 2009 took place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, under the title ‘At a turning point for a sustainable future – the Social Democratic Way Forward’ on 23 and 24 November, hosted by its member party, the Dominican Revolutionary Party PRD.
The meeting opened with addresses from the [...]
During the last couple of days two Kurdish prisoners have died and a third prisoner is expected to die in a prison in Sine (Sanandaj). The prison warden in Sine has confirmed that two Kurdish political prisoners have died and that at least one more is very sick.
But the warden claims that the Kurdish political [...]
In a ceremony for teachers who are members of the Basij paramilitary force, one of the officials that chair the education board in Kurdistan claimed that over 11 thousand Kurdish teachers are members of the Basij.
This may very well be true, but it is not due to Kurdish teachers belief in the Islamic Republic or [...]
According to different reports a Kurdish political prisoner by the Loghman Rahmani’s physical health is so bad that he is expected to die.
Two other Kurdish prisoners have died during the last couple of days under mysterious circumstances in Sine (Sanandaj) Prison.
Rahmani has been moved to the prison hospital for medical treatment, but according to reports [...]
