In memory of our dear friend Yousef Faghihi who was killed together with three other brave Peshmergas by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on the 21 of August last year. Today would have been Yousefs birthday. We all miss him very much.
Some pictures of Yousef:
According to Iran’s penal code an individual that is convicted of conducting “Mohareb”, (which means waging war) against God should be executed. The regime in Iran has used this notion of “Enemy of God” to crack down on all forms of dissident since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
It began when Ayatollah Khomeini [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
