Kurdistan

Iran, in the past few weeks, has arrested four Kurdish political activists and several members of the banned Baha'i faith for their alleged li

Komala Party of Iranaian Kurdistan, a leftist opposition party announced on Sunday that several of its members have been arrested in Urmia.

Turkish attributed bombardment on a touristic location in Zaxo, in the Kurdistan Region’s Dohuk province on Wednesday killed nine and injured dozens of others. 

Hengaw Organization, which monitors human rights violations in Kurdi

Kurdish language teacher Zahra Mohammadi turned herself in on Saturday after she was sentenced to five yea

Haydar Ghorbani, a 48-year-old Kurdish political prisoner on death row, was executed in secret today in Iran without being allowed to see his family for the last time, Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reports.

The family of an Iranian handball player missing since Tuesday in Spain, where she had travelled to with Iran’s national team to participate in the Women’s Handball World Championship, have come under intense pressure from the Islamic Republic’s intelligence agency in the countr

The fate of Davood Rahimi, a 34-year-old Kurd from Naqadeh in northwest Iran, is still not known 63 days after his arrest by Iranian security forces.

One of the main Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups claimed on Tuesday to have killed an intelligence officer in western Iran, weeks after Iran threatened to carry out operations against Kurdish groups inside the Kurdistan Region.

Dozens of young women and girls became victims of rape in the city of Sardasht by a gang affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Avatoday’s sources in Sardasht have reported.