Following huge Newroz celebrations in Urmia, Pan-Turkists threaten genocide
On 22 March 2025, 4 days after Newroz festivities in Urmia drew over 100,000 attendees, Turkish demonstrators affiliated with Pan-Turkist ...
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Newroz celebrations continue in Iranian Kurdistan
Celebrations of the Kurdish New Year festival, Newroz, continue across Kurdish-majority regions of Iran (Rojhilat), with massive gatherings as festivities ...
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Iran: Kurds in Urmia hold first mass Newroz gathering as symbol of resistance
On 18 March, Kurds in Urmia, the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, held their first mass Newroz ceremony, marking the ...
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Kurds in Iran celebrate Newroz in defiance of revolutionary guard warnings, threats
Kurds in Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhilat) are demonstrating solidarity in the face of threats from security forces, particularly from the Islamic ...
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Newroz festivities in Iranian Kurdistan highlight Kurdish identity amid government crackdown
On the eve of Newroz, Iranian Kurds have defied intense security pressures to imbue this year’s celebrations with a distinctly ...
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Iran targets women’s rights defenders, activists following International Women’s Day
As the Islamic Republic of Iran's security and intelligence apparatus intensifies its crackdown on Kurdish civil society activists in the ...
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Amnesty International warns of urgent threat to Kurdish activists Pakhshan Azizi, Warisheh Moradi
On the occasion of International Women's Day, Amnesty International issued a statement urging the international community to demand the immediate ...
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Bilindane: Embracing the waning winter and the dawn of renewal in Iranian Kurdistan
For the past four years, Halve village in Sardasht (Serdeşt), Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhilat), has proudly hosted the Bilindane festival. Originally ...
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Survival on the edge: Kurdish Kolbars endure economic strangulation and state violence
Political and economic pressures on Kurds in Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhilat) remain unrelenting. Toward the end of 2024, the wave of ...
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A Kurdish political prisoner speaks out: Iran’s rulers have no right to decide who lives or dies
Zeynab Jalalian, a Kurdish political prisoner who has spent 17 years behind bars in Yazd Prison, has written a letter ...
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