The government disproportionately targeted minority groups, including Kurds, Arabs, Azeris, and Baluchis, for arbitrary arrest, prolonged detention, and physical abuse, says the State Department report.
There are growing concerns about the condition of a Kurdish political prisoner on hunger strike.
Kurdish political activist, Muxtar Zarei, has been summoned to Sina’s Islamic Revolutionary Court.
Kurdish political prisoner’s execution sentence was carried out following his transfer to Miandoab Prison.
Islamic Court in Wurme (Orumieh in Persian) sentences a Kurdish activist from the city of Piranshar to 12 year imprisonment.
Kurdish Cartoonist Aref Niazi, from Kermashan (Kermanshah in Persian), was declared the winner of the hypocritical anti—ISIS cartoon competition, sponsored by the Islamic government in Iran.
Iranian authorities arrested five social media users on security charges, a judiciary spokesman was quoted as saying on Monday, in the latest incident in the establishment’s long fight to suppress online dissenters.
The arbitrary and unlawful arrest and prosecution of journalists and activists in Iran weakens the protection of human rights of all in Iran, a United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed said on June 5.
Three weeks after the public protest in Mahabad, and other Kurdish cities in Iran, the fate of a 17 year-old girl is still unknown.
With the death of another Kurdish courier worker (kolbar) in Shino, the death and injury toll of cross-border couriers has reached nine, since the start of spring season which coincides with the start of new calendar year in Iran.
Kurdistan Press Agency
