Kurdistan

According to information received by Avatoday on Friday, Iranian security forces arrested a former army officer and moved him to Evin prison in Tehran.

Iranian intelligence forces on Wednesday have arrested at least three university students in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj without any elaboration on their charges.

Two civil activists were arrested by security forces in the Kurdish town of Dehgolan on Tuesday, sources told Avatoday.

Kurdish poet and activist Aram Fathi has been reportedly on trial on Sunday without the attendance of a lawyer to represent him, authorities told his family according to his friend.

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Intelligence Department in Mariwan on Saturday detained Kurdish poet and civil right activist Aram Fathi, his family and close friends confirmed.

At least 11 people including children died and dozens more injured as a gas explosion occurred at a wedding hall Thursday night in the Kurdish city of Saqez, avatoday sources reported.

As nation-wide protests against fuel price hike spread across Iran, situation in the Kurdish city of Mariwan deteriorated, Avatoday correspondent said.

A teacher of Kurdish language in Iran’s city of Sanandaj Zahra Mohamadi have been arrested about six months ago and the intelligence agency have not yet been able to find any evidences justifying her detention.

The Kurdish Autonomous Administration in northeastern Syria announced on Saturday that 17 civilians died and 24 more wounded since Thursday night’s ceasefire, which Turkey was blamed for breaking it.

In a lengthy report published on Friday, Amnesty International announced that evidences from Erdogan’s deadly attacks on the Syrian Kurds proved that Turkey committed serious war crimes.