This report details the coercive recruitment of an Iranian Kurdish teenager named Hira into the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK). Lured through social media manipulation, false promises of personal freedom, and severe threats against her family, she was illegally trafficked across the Iranian border into military camps located in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Inside the PAK facilities, Hira discovered systemic deception, including the falsification of official documents to conceal the recruitment of child soldiers. The investigation highlights severe gender discrimination, strict segregation, forced marriage pressures, and the exploitation of vulnerable youth as human shields, shattering the group’s propaganda regarding human rights and equality.