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Iranian Kurdish refugee dies on the border with Belarus
A Kurdish asylum seeker from the town of Salas Bawajani, in Kermanshah provinc, has died on the border between Belarus and Poland of frostbite. According to a report received by IKHRW, on Monday, November 22, 2021, a 25-year-old asylum seeker, identified as Bakhtiar Musazadeh, from the town of Salas Babajani on the Belarusian-Polish border, died […]
Lahur Talabany threatens his rivals in a fiery video statement
Lahur Talabany, recently dismissed co-chair of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), condemned on Friday the “assassination” of a police commander close to him by security forces in Ranya city in Sulaimani province the previous day. He threatened that he could “open the doors of hell on our enemies,” in reference to his rivals in […]
Michael Arizanti: PKK and Its Systematic Child Soldier Recruitment
Thousands of children are reportedly serving as fighters in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) conflicts in Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. These boys and girls, some said to be as young as 8 years old, may fight on the front lines, participate in suicide missions, and act as spies, messengers, or lookouts. […]
Unborn child of Kurdish migrant buried in Polish Tatar cemetery
BOHONIKI, Poland, Nov 23 (Reuters) – In a tiny white coffin, the body of an unborn child that died in the womb of its mother as she tried to cross from Belarus into the European Union was buried in a Muslim cemetery in north-east Poland on Tuesday. In Islam, unborn children are also given funeral […]
Students protests in KRG continue
Students from universities and institutes across the Kurdistan Region protested on Tuesday (November 23) for the third day demanding the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) resume issuing their monthly stipends. The students gathered outside universities and institutes in Sulaimani, Erbil and Halabja governorates, as well as in Soran, Raparin and Garmian. One protester outside of Sulaimani […]
۱۵-year-old Kolber commits suicide; The latest achievement of Iran’s border guards!
According to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch and local sources in Paveh, Hawraman, a 15-year-old teenager named Soroush Rahmani committed suicide due to poverty and a few days after several of his mules were killed. Soroush engaged in Kolberi, a form of semi-legal cross-border smuggling that takes places on the Iraqi-Iranian border. Kolberi is […]
LOST in PJAK: Adel Brooki Milan (Part 11)
In a special note to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, a former PJAK member investigates the forced disappearance and death of Iranian Kurdish teenagers in the PJAK / PKK terrorist group, and provides the watchdog with specific information about “Adel Brooki Milan.” It is worth mentioning that pictures and personal information has been obtained […]
Ali Haydar Kaytan is killed again.
It was stated in Turkish state media that one of the founders of the PKK/KCK, Ali Haydar Kaytan, codenamed “Fuat”, was among the PKK members neutralized in the operation of the MIT and the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) in northern Iraq. “A multi-faceted intelligence study was carried out by the MIT regarding the so-called KCK […]
LOST in PJAK: Muharrem Omoyi Milan (Part 8)
In a special note to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, a former PJAK member investigates the forced disappearance and death of Iranian Kurdish teenagers in the PJAK / PKK terrorist group, and provides the watchdog with specific information about “Muharrem Omoyi Milan.”
LOST in PJAK: Fatemeh Amara (Part 10)
In a special note to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, a former PJAK member investigates the forced disappearance and death of Iranian Kurdish teenagers in the PJAK / PKK terrorist group, and provides the watchdog with specific information about “Fatemeh Amara.”