After the war the crackdown: in this week’s Kurdish news

OPINION

After the war the crackdown: in this week’s Kurdish news

June 29, 2025

Sarah Glynn The twelve-day war between Israel and Iran seems to be over – for now. Since my last article ...

WORLD

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi urges Trump to keep US out of war in Middle East

June 20, 2025

In a powerful message delivered from Iran, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi called on US President Donald Trump to ...

HUMAN RIGHTS

Amnesty International updates urgent action campaign for Pakhshan Azizi

May 23, 2025

On 5 May, Amnesty International re-published its campaign urging for Iran to halt any plans to execute Kurdish humanitarian worker ...

WORLD

Nobel laureates demand immediate release of Narges Mohammadi, all Iran’s political prisoners

March 15, 2025

Eighty-five Nobel laureates have issued a joint statement demanding the unconditional release of Narges Mohammadi and all political prisoners in ...

HUMAN RIGHTS

Zeynab Jalalian marks 17 years of imprisonment with defiant letter, reinforces commitment to resistance

February 27, 2025

After 17 years in prison, Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian remains defiant, refusing to break under torture, exile, and relentless ...

KURDISTAN

Growing outcry as lawyers and activists condemn death sentences for three women in Iran

February 23, 2025

In a deeply alarming turn of events, labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi, whose death sentence was previously overturned by Iran’s Supreme ...

HUMAN RIGHTS

Italian city of Florence officially grants Pakhshan Azizi honorary citizenship in unanimous vote

February 20, 2025

The Florence City Council has unanimously approved honorary citizenship for Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish humanitarian worker and human rights activist ...

HUMAN RIGHTS

Iranian judiciary upholds death sentence, leaving Pakhshan Azizi at immediate risk of execution

February 7, 2025

On 6 February, Amir Raisian, the lawyer of Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish women political prisoner currently in Evin Prison, confirmed ...

WOMEN

Warisheh Moradi: Truth and fight for freedom will overcome destiny

January 30, 2025

Warisheh Moradi, a Kurdish woman prisoner held in Iran's infamous Evin Prison and sentenced to death, published a letter on ...

HUMAN RIGHTS

Kurds mobilise in historic strike against death sentences for Azizi and Moradi

January 22, 2025

Kurds in Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhilat) united in an unprecedented general strike on 22 January, demanding the revocation of death sentences ...

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