Rahim Mahmoudi, the head of the Council for Defending Political Prisoners in Iran, said that due to the lack of free media in Iran, there is no correct estimate of the number of Kurdish political prisoners in Iranian jails.
“Emo” is now a term used in Baghdad to refer to young men who dress and act in a hip-hop style. This trend has become popular among teenagers between 12 and 17 years old.
Dozens of civilians in Syria's city of Homs were killed in cold blood, the government and opposition said, disputing responsibility for what both sides called a massacre.
Iran executed some 670 people last year, most of them for drug crimes that do not merit capital punishment under international law and more than 20 for offences against Islam, a United Nations investigator said on Monday.
Saeed Mortazavi, the former Tehran prosecutor, has reportedly been indicted for deaths and torture at the Kahrizak Detention Centre. The Tabnak website, a site linked to the security forces, reported on Sunday that Mortazavi has been…
Gulf Arabs told Russia in blunt language on Saturday its failure to take a tough line on Syria had allowed killing to continue and urged Moscow to back an Arab peace effort that includes a call for Russian ally President Bashar al-Assad to…
"Najib Hassani", a Kurdish detained writer, was transferred to Dizl Abbad prison in Kermanshah province after being held detainee for a month in the Intelligence agency in Pawa city (north of Kermanshah).
Syrian troops have pushed ahead with a new assault on the northern region of Idlib, shelling one of the centres of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule and sending families fleeing for safety as members of the armed…
Based on a report on Monday, March 5, Mostafa Salimi—a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to execution and currently held at Saqqez prison—got into a scuffle with prison authorities.
The European Parliament held a meeting on March 8 to reflect on the impact of sanctions against Iran driven by human rights concerns.
Kurdistan Press Agency
