Kurdistan Press Agency
Iran
5 girls under 10 years of age married in southern Iranian province
The head of the General Department for Registration of Documents said that five girls under 10 year of age were married in the Province of Hormozgan (South of Iran).
Human Rights
Iran
Iran sentences opposition figure to jai
Iran has sentenced Ebrahim Yazdi, the head of a banned opposition party and a former foreign minister, to eight years in prison for "attempting to act against national security," his lawyer said Wednesday.
Kurdistan
Per 48 hours a Kurdish citizen is being killed or wounded
On average over the past 3 months, per 48 hours one of the on-foot traders – those who carrying goods on their backs across the border- in the Iranian Kurdistan border has been killed or wounded by the security forces of the regime of…
Iran
Iranian woman to face death by stoning or hanging
An Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery could be hanged instead, the students news agency ISNA reported.
Human Rights
Syrian city 'under siege' by army
Residents in the Syrian city of Homs are calling for western intervention, as activists say the area has come under renewed attack from forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
Kurdistan
Ten prisoners were executed in Iran
According to reliable sources from Iran ten prisoners were executed in two different prisons in Iran, early morning on December 24.
Iran
Man hanged in public despite critical condition
The public execution for a prisoner was carried out on the dawn of Saturday in the Danesh Square in Shahre Kord even while the prisoner needed urgent medical attention.
Kurdistan
Kurdish prisoner's death sentence commuted
Iranian authorities have reduced the death sentence of Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian to life in prison, Jalalian's defence attorney reports.
Iran
Iran says it arrests suspected US spy
Iran's Intelligence Ministry said Saturday that its agents have arrested a person of Iranian origin on suspicion of spying for the United States.
Iran
Executions for drug crimes surge in Iran: Amnesty
Iran has executed more people for drug-related crimes in 2011 than in the previous two years combined, in "a killing spree of staggering proportions," Amnesty International said Thursday.