contact and mother-tongue use, military training, detention, and deaths whose circumstances remain unclear. Her testimony details her reasons for joining,…
Interview
Maryam Farrokhi, an 18-year-old from Piranshahr, describes her experience with Komala after being influenced by a friend’s accounts of freedom…
Samira Soufi, a 32-year-old hairdresser and tattoo artist, describes how a work trip to Erbil led to obtaining a supporter…
Kaveh Shahbazi recounts how Instagram contacts persuaded him to join Komala as a teenager with promises of money, housing, a…
Hira recounts her recruitment by PAK as a teenager, subsequent confinement and abuse, repeated escape attempts, and her eventual flight…
This third installment details Hira's harrowing experiences within the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), highlighting systematic physical torture, solitary confinement, and…
This second installment details the systematic abuse, forced marriages, and severe physical torture inflicted upon underage recruits within the Kurdistan…
This report details the coercive recruitment of an Iranian Kurdish teenager named Hira into the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK). Lured…
The recruitment of minors under 18 by Kurdish armed groups via social media constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian…
A survivor's account details severe human rights abuses, forced labor, and child recruitment within the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) military…