Iran:Islamic Republic of Terrorists' atrocities Against the Kurds Continues

Picture is from Bahman Ghobadi, Iranian-Kurdish Director's movie "Turtles Can Fly".



The Gross Violation of Human Rights of Kurds in the Islamic Republic of Iran

PDKI: Human rights violations in Iranian Kurdistan continues The Gross Violation of Human Rights of Kurds in the Islamic Republic of Iran


Since December 2006, numerous Kurdish individuals are killed, detained with alleged links to Kurdish organizations “jeopardizing the internal security of Iran”.

Click here to see the list of the names of those Kurdish individuals that have been killed, sentenced to death or imprisonment:

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Reporters Without Border: The situation of journalists in the Kurdish part of Iran has become even worse

Media rights watchdog blasts Iran arrests

London, Mar. 14 – A prominent international media rights watchdog on Wednesday called on the Iranian government to release four journalists who were arrested in Iran’s north-western Kurdish region.

“The situation of journalists in the Kurdish part of Iran has become even worse”, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in a statement.

“With increasing frequency, they are being arrested arbitrarily and held incommunicado without the authorities feeling it necessary to inform their families or provide them with a lawyer. We call for their immediate release as no evidence of any guilt has been produced”, the press freedom organisation said.

Kia Jahani, a contributor to the Kurdish-language television station Kurdistan TV, was arrested on February 24 in Marivan, according to the watchdog. Aso Salah, who works for the weekly Didgagh, was arrested on March 8 by intelligence officials in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, while covering an authorised demonstration marking International Women’s Day.

Adnan Hassanpour and Kaveh Javanmard, who were arrested earlier, are still being held without being allowed visits.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to be the Middle East’s biggest prison for journalists, with a total of seven detained”, RSF said.

Iranian Kurds have suffered at the hands of the Islamic Republic of Terrorists more than any other group since their occupation of Iran in 1979. The brutality aganist Iranian kurds is on the rise once again as the regime smells the foul odor of death and decay coming from its black hole of totalitarinism.

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Kurdish-Iranian Journalist Incommunnicado

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Iran: Fear of torture or ill treatment/ arbitrary arrest: Adnan Hassanpour (m)
PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 13/017/2007 16 February 2007UA 39/07 Fear of torture or ill treatment/ arbitrary arrest

IRAN Adnan Hassanpour (m), journalist Adnan Hassanpour, journalist and advocate of cultural rights for Iranian Kurds, was reportedly detained on 25 January in Marivan, a small city in the northwestern province of Kurdistan. He is believed to be held incommunicado in the provincial capital Sanandaj, where he is at risk of torture or ill-treatment.

Up to six people, reportedly from the Ministry of Intelligence, are said to have telephoned Adnan Hassanpour’s mobile telephone on 25 January and told him to go to a certain place. When he followed their instructions, he was arrested. Security forces personnel reportedly took him back to his home where they removed his computer, notebooks and other personal effects prior to detaining him. It is believed that he was transferred the same day to a detention centre in the provincial capital, Sanandaj, around two hours away, where he is believed to be held incommunicado.

Adnan Hassanpour has reportedly been denied access to his family and his lawyer. His mother is said to have made several requests to Ministry of Intelligence officials to visit him, after travelling for more than two hours in cold winter weather to reach Sanandaj, which have all been denied. The officials have reportedly indicated that he will be detained for several more weeks, although he is not known to have been charged with any offence.Adnan Hassanpour is a former member of the editorial board of the Kurdish-Persian weekly journal, Aso (Horizon), which was closed by the Iranian authorities in August 2005. Adnan Hassanpour had previously reportedly been tried in connection with articles published in the journal.On 13 February 2007, over 20 Kurdish writers, journalists and artists issued a petition against the manner of his arrest.Kurdish human rights defender and journalist Sherko Jihani, who was arrested on 27 November 2006, is believed to have been tortured, including by being beaten severely, while held incommunicado at an unknown location, believed to be a detention facility belonging to the Ministry of Intelligence in Iranian Kurdistan. (See further information on UA 331/06, MDE 13/009/2007, 26 January 2007: http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE130092007?open&of=ENG-IRN).

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