The Middle East Institute will host Carol Prunhuber, my colleague Sharif Behruz who works as the PDKI’s U.S. representative and my brother Idris Ahmedi for a lecture about the political, social and human rights status of Iran’s Kurds
Read more on the MEI’s website – Prunhuber will speak about Kurd leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou whose untimely [...]
Jamshid to the left and Chia to the right
Unfortunately two of our Peshmergas, Sadiq Raofi (known by his nickname Chia) and Jamshid Nasri, lost their lives in a car accident when they were driving back to one of our bases in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Chia (which means mountain) was a dear friend to all of us [...]
The Islamic Republic of Iran falsely claims that its security forces have arrested three members of our party, the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, in the Kurdish cities of Sardasht and (Xane) Piranshar.
Our party has made it clear in a statement yesterday that none of our members have been arrested in Sardasht or Piranshar.
Our party [...]
I thought that I would share some of the pictures from the 7th Session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review:
After listening to Hillary Clinton talking about how Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is “supplanting” the government of Iran one really becomes bewildered by the United States Iran-policy.
Apparently, the US believes that the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad are powerless figures, who are being controlled by the Revolutionary Guard. It seems that the fact that [...]
Read: In August 1979, seven months after the ouster of the shah, the euphoria of revolution had given way to the realities of Islamic fundamentalism — black chadors, broken wine bottles, censorship, public executions. Protests in Tehran were drawing enormous crowds, while in Kurdistan, separatists were demanding an independent Kurdish state. On Aug. 16, Ayatollah [...]
Yesterday I held a lecture about the Iranian Kurdistan for members of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth (SSU) in Stockholm. SSU is currently organizing a series of lectures about the different parts of Kurdistan and I was invited to speak about the Kurds in Iran – with focus on methods of struggle, future opportunities and [...]
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports that:
In the aftermath of the student protest rally in front of the School of Law and Political Sciences in Tehran University on November 16, 2009, seven students were arrested by security agents outside the university, and their whereabouts and charges against them are unknown. Following their [...]
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard arrested Kawa Ghasemi Krmanshari, a leading member of the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, in his home on Wednesday.
It appears that Krmanshari was arrested in order to prevent him to continue to report about the human rights violations in Iranian Kurdistan and Iran. The regime in Iran has arrested several leading human [...]
The Friday Prayers leader in the city of Urmye, Hojjatoleslam Gholam-Reza Hassani, apparently believes “that the bodies of executed dissidents must be displayed in public to prevent further riots.”
“In order to prevent further unrest, the bodies of the executed [protesters] must be put on public display in the streets of Tehran,” Hassani said. “The tongues [...]
