contact and mother-tongue use, military training, detention, and deaths whose circumstances remain unclear. Her testimony details her reasons for joining,…
Iranian Kurdistan
Kaveh Shahbazi recounts how Instagram contacts persuaded him to join Komala as a teenager with promises of money, housing, a…
Saman Hamidinejad recounts entering a PJAK-controlled area at seventeen and spending fourteen days in a snow-covered mountain cave without adequate…
Hira recounts her recruitment by PAK as a teenager, subsequent confinement and abuse, repeated escape attempts, and her eventual flight…
This exclusive testimony details how a fifteen-year-old Iranian youth was deceptively recruited into the armed group Komala via social media…
In an exclusive interview with IKHRW, a former female member of the PDKI details her ten-month ordeal inside mountain camps,…
A distraught father from Ilam has appealed to IKHRW following the disappearance and recruitment of his 14-year-old son into the…
The Kurdish border regions of western Iran face severe extrajudicial assassinations by armed groups like PJAK, alongside deep socio-economic challenges…
Jann K. Kleffner's legal analysis examines why non-state armed groups remain strictly bound by international humanitarian law during non-international armed…
A former member of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) reveals how he was abducted under the guise of false employment…