According to the definition of sociologists, the concept of sect refers to any group that uses mind control methods and deception as a method for recruiting members. These methods are used in the process of deceiving people to join the cult and persuading them to stay in the cult and turning the members into “captains”. […]

The shepherds of the country’s border areas are not safe from PJAK. During the past years, the members of PJAK that roam the country’s border areas and enter and leave the country from Iraqi Kurdistan, where their camps are based, have been attacking the shepherds and the villages in order to get the necessities of […]

Since the beginning of the ISIS attack in the region, PKK and PJAK elements have been trying to mislead the Kurdish citizens by using massive propaganda and abusing their feelings of sympathy for one another. When ISIS came out of nowhere, Kurdish people watched them rampage through Iraq and Syria, taking Yazidi’s and killing Kurds, […]

Socioeconomic issues of the border population and its many examples have always created problems for local families and of course the society as a whole, and this issue cannot be solved until we identify and eliminate the main causes of the damage, which is the serious determination and will of the government officials of Iran. […]

PKK and PJAK are not the only groups that target Iranian Kurdish youth, although they are the most vicious, as they do not allow their members to use the phone, or have any other form of contact with their families, something anyone would see as a basic human right. “Which human rights? Which rights at […]

The father of Idris Shafiei Zarne told the story of his son in a call with the reporter of Human Rights Watch of Iran Kurdistan as follows: Which human rights organization should be complained to? My wife wanted to go to Qandil and set herself on fire because of her son’s grief. What kind of […]

Amin Randi Gonbadi was a child soldier who became a member of PJAK, and unfortunately was killed after being deceived into joining this militant group, and his burial place is also unclear. Amin is the son of Abdul Rahman from Urmia city, and his brother emphasized that Amin was not a member of armed and […]

Following the ongoing talks with the families of the victims of the PKK / PJAK crimes, the Human Rights Watch of Iran has arranged a conversation with the father of “Mohammad Navid Doosti”, a member of PJAK. It seems that the PKK / PJAK does not intend to prevent Kurdish children and youth from dying […]

The heavy burden of many problems that these families suffer after the loss of their children sometimes leads to the collapse and complete destruction of some of those families. We have described many times the grave concerns of Iranian Kurdish families who have fallen victim to human rights violations such as enforced disappearances and the […]

Oftentimes, we find social or economical problems at the foundation of children’s recruitment by PJAK. In fact, isolated children that experience problems at home, are easy to be ‘groomed’ and lured into the mountains by portraying them a very romantic picture of life there, or the image of possibilities of immigrating to Europe and university […]