After 144 days since his disappearance, Saman Nassem, a Kurdish political prisoner on death row, was permitted to contact his family on July 11 from Zanjan city’s Sari Prison.
Following a series of acid attacks on women in the Iranian city of Isfahan in 2014, similar attacks are reported in the Kurdish city of Bokan in Wurme (West Azerbijan) Province.
Some of the cultural and political activists in the city of Rawansar have been called to the city’s Intelligence Office for alleged ties to Kurdish dissident political organizations.
A Kurdish woman from Wrume (West Azarbaijan) Province in Eastern Kurdistan was shot and killed by her husband.
In a column on Commentary Magazine on the 26th anniversary of Vienna murder, Michael Rubin former Defence Department official accuses Iran of complicity in Vienna Murder.
Despite numerous calls over the past year by human rights organizations to include concerns about Iran’s human rights violations in the negotiation, the deal was reached without it.
This week’s Pendant report consists of one case of female suicide in Kurdistan and updates on the conditions of two female political prisoners in other parts of Iran.
Armed assaults on Kurdish courier workers (Kolbars) continues, and the latest attack and direct shooting in Sardasht border region, has injured one Kolbar.
The job of a Kurdish teacher in the city of Piranshar has been threatened by the city’s Board of Education for his involvement in cultural activities.
In the course of killings, as a result of direct and indiscriminative shootings at Kurdish courier workers (kolbars) by paramilitary and border guards, four more Kurdish civilians in search of making a living have fallen victim.
Kurdistan Press Agency
