Reuters reports that the United Nations lifts the issue of discrimination against Iran’s different non-Persian nationalities:
Iran should do more to protect its ethnic minorities such as Arabs, Kurds and Baluch, a United Nations human rights body said on Friday.The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), a group of 18 independent rights [...]
I have received several angry emails asking about our reaction on the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Governments decision to commemorate Ayatollah Khomeini in the Qazi Muhammed Conference Centre in Erbil for the second year in a row.
It is important to underline that the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government and the two ruling political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan [...]
All of the different Kurdish political parties have called for a general strike in Iranian Kurdistan tomorrow, 13 of May 2009, to condemn the recent execution of five political prisoner, of which four were Kurds.
The PDKI writes in a statement that Farzad Kamangar, Shirin Alemholi, Ferhad Wekili and Ali Heiderians only crime was that they [...]
The Islamic Republic of Iran has once again shown its enmity against the Kurdish people. In fear of losing their power the regime continues to suppress, torture, imprison and execute Kurdish and Iranian citizens.
The Islamic Republic of Iran announced that they had executed five political prisoners by the names of Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heiderian, Ferhad [...]
The human rights organization HRNA reports that four of the 22 Kurdish political prisoners on death row were executed this morning. The names of the executed Kurdish political prisoners are: Farzad Kamangar, Ali Haiderian, Farhad Wekili and Shirin Alemholi (woman).
It is worth underlining that in at least three of the four cases an appeal court [...]
According to reports from Iranian Kurdistan nine members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been killed during the last couple of days in the Kurdish cities of Mariwan, Piranshar, Saghez and Bokan.
Yesterday a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard by the name of Hama Rasoul was found dead in the Kurdish city of Piranshar.
A couple of days [...]
On the 30th of March 1947 the President of the Kurdistan Republic, Qazi Muhammed, was hanged in public in the capital of the Republic. To pay tribute to Qazi Muhammed and the countless martyrs that followed in his path, the 30th of March has become the official Martyrs Day in Iranian Kurdistan.
To commemorate this [...]
Link to pictures from Newroz, Kurdish new year, celebration in the city of Mehabad.Link to article
Last week the United Kingdom launched its annual report on Human Rights. Five pages of the report (P. 113-118) are dedicated to the human rights situation in Iran. On the issue of minorities the report says:
Members of Iran’s ethnic minority groups from the Ahwaz, Kurdistan, Khuzestan, Baluchistan and Turkmenistan regions also face increasing intimidation. Large [...]
The Middle East Institute hosted Carol Prunhuber, my colleague Sharif Behruz who works as the PDKI’s U.S. representative and my brother Idris Ahmedi to speak about the political, social and human rights status of Iran’s Kurds Below you can watch videos from the discussion.
