According to reports received by Avatoday, Saro Yarahmadi, a 57-year-old Kurdish dentist from Kermanshah, was arrested on Wednesday, September 18, 2025 (26 Shahrivar 1404), by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) intelligence organization.
According to reports received by Avatoday, on Thursday, September 25, Qasem Azizi, a 47-year-old Kurdish Kolbar and father of two, was killed by direct fire from Iran’s border guards.
As the new academic year begins in Iran, Kurdish human rights activists have released a report documenting the arrest of schoolchildren and minors under the age of 18 since the start of 2025.
According to reports received by Avatoday, at noon on Sunday, September 21, Timour Khaledian, a civil and human rights activist, was arrested and transferred to Qorveh prison on charges of “propaganda activities against the regime” after filing a complaint against a judge in Ser
On the third anniversary of the state killing of Jina Mahsa Amini, four Kurdish women’s rights activists in Sanandaj were summoned to the intelligence headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iranian Kurdistan.
Avatoday has learned that on the afternoon of Monday, September 24, following protests by residents of the villages of Karavian, Qolqoleh, and Pireomran in Saqqez County, Kurdistan Province, against the continued operation of the Qolqoleh gold mine, one citizen named Mohammad Ra
In recent days, Naser Bakrzadeh, a 26-year-old Kurdish political prisoner from Urmia, has once again been sentenced to death by Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court of Urmia, presided over by Judge Shahini, on charges of “espionage for Israel.”
In response to court rulings by Iran’s repressive judiciary against two Kurdish teachers, a group of educators from Saqqez and Sanandaj visited the homes of Shahram Karimi, a teacher from Zivieh, and his brother Majid Karimi, a teacher in Sanandaj, to express solidarity and demand the annulment o
According to local media reports, following a military maneuver by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s army on Wednesday, September 3, vast forested areas near the village of Yengijeh in the region known as Kani Qolajan were engulfed in flames.
On the morning of Friday, August 29, hundreds of citizens of Sanandaj gathered along the “Abidar” hiking route at the invitation of the “People’s Committee in Support of Dismissed Kurdish Teachers.”
