Kurdistan

Iranian border guards tortured and killed three Kurdish cross-border laborers in the city of Sardasht, relatives of the victims told Avatoday.

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has seized hundreds of livestock from Kurdish ranchers in Piranshahr and Shno and smuggled them via meddlers to Iraqi Kurdistan, three sources told Avatoday.

Leila Shakeri, a 43-year-old woman from Yasuj’s village of Sepidar was killed on Monday by her husband Khodabakhsh Shakeri who was freed temporarily due to a coronavirus crisis in prison, a family member of the victim told Avatoday.

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps on Monday attacked the bases of Iranian Kurdish opposition parties in the border areas of Iraqi Kurdistan Region.

Amar Alani, a Kurdish atomic scientist from Qasr Shirnin has been killed by Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Kermanshah on Saturday, two sources told Avatoday.

Zahra Mohammadi a civil activist and Kurdish language teacher from Sanandaj who has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for teaching Kurdish literature reacted to her trial and said that teaching mother tongue is a holy crime. 

Iranian Revolutionary Guards on Thursday opened fire on hundreds of Dervishes who were trying to pass the Bashmakh border gate to attend the funeral of Sheikh Mohammadi Kasnazani in Suleimani.

Mokhtar Khandani, Bilal Amini and Yasin Karimi, three Kurdish environmentalists from the border city of Paveh died as they were attempting to control forest fire in the area.

Clashes erupted early hours on Wednesday between unknown fighters and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGCs) in border areas of Urmia, sources told Avatoday.

Hedayat Abdollahpour, a Kurdish political prisoner, was executed reportedly by shooting in Oshnavieh prison on May 11, Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) announced.