The Kurdish university student Jehangir Abdullahi was arrested on the 26th of January in Tehran. Several human rights organizations are worried about the lack of information about Abdullahis whereabouts.
Jehangir’s family have visited different government institutions to receive information about their son, but the regime refuses to inform the family about Jehangir’s location.
Jehangir is a political [...]
Last Saturday three high ranking officers of Iran’s Security Service “Itlaat” and two officers at the Governorship in the city of Mariwan in Iranian Kurdistan was arrested on charges of supporting a Kurdish opposition party.
According to different sources, the arrested agents have already confessed to having contacts with the Kurdish opposition party. The arrest of [...]
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard arrested the Kurdish university teacher Adnan Chigel in his home in the Kurdish city of Ilam. During the past couple of weeks the Revolutionary Guard has increased its presence in Ilam. Iran’s different armed forces are preventing people from the city to move around freely.
Unfortunately, one of the PDKI’s brave Peshmerga’s, by the name of Mehin Almasi, lost her life in a car accident outside the Kurdish city of Sine (Sanandaj) on the 25th of January.
Almasi who became a Peshmerga in 2009 had been working undercover in Iranian Kurdistan for the past couple of months. She was a brave [...]
Family members of a 22-year-old imprisoned Kurdish women activist, by the name of Sirwa Weisi, meet with their dotter briefly on the 22nd of December. Weisi’s family stated that their dotter had been physically and psychologically tortured in the notorious Avin Prison. Weisi was arrested in November after that she participated in a protest to [...]
I haven’t been able to update my blog regularly during the last couple of weeks; below you can read a summary of different events that have occurred in Iranian Kurdistan during the past couple of weeks.
Three weeks ago a Kurdish man by the name of Jafar Khlifzadeh lost his leg after that he stepped on [...]
“But while Kurdish Iranians don’t appear quite ready to join the “Green Movement” — as the opposition is being called — they do seem to be helping dissidents from Tehran escape Iran on the way to Europe.”
This story is very telling, the Green Movement will not be able to bring about any real change if [...]
