The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) kidnapped a senior member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party on Thursday. Mohammed Shah Marwan is the deputy head of the PUK’s party headquarters in Raparin and a prominent former official of the PUK’s Zanyari (Intelligence). Marwan, accompanied by a close companion, was visiting his hometown of Razhi […]

For many years, the people of the border regions, and underdeveloped areas of the country, have been living in unfavorable conditions and have the least facilities and equipment for welfare, education, and so on. Water, electricity, gas, internet and telephone, school and university and many other examples that can be mentioned are either non-existent or […]

The PKK and its affiliated groups continue to forcibly recruit children despite strong objections from their families. The use of child soldiers is a grave human rights violation prohibited under international law. Images accompanying death announcements released this week by PKK-affiliated media showing a number of girls that have fallen victim to its war with […]

Following days of bombardment: PKK claims over a dozen Turkish helicopters are attacking Zap region in Iraqi Kurdistan and attempting to land troops there. Zap is the most entrenched PKK area with webs of tunnels. The helicopters reportedly flying in not from Turkey, but from Turkish bases inside Iraqi Kurdistan. These renewed operations come just […]

The approach of militant groups such as PJAK in the use of children in war is contrary to their commitment under the Geneva Convention not to use children under the age of 18. Perhaps the deception and abduction of Kurdish teenagers, youth and, of course, children, and then arming and using them for the purposes […]

“If you have a lot of properties, your lawyers will mess up somewhere,” says Zack Kopplin, whose report on the unrecorded wealth of the Iraqi Kurdistan’s influential Barzani Family was published in December 2021, and whose recent report gives a much more comprehensive account of that hidden wealth. The Barzani family, which has been ruling […]

“Mojdeh and her daughter were very close to each other, and this caused mental problems in my daughter.” “She told me several times that if I did not bring her daughter to her, she would either run away from home or commit suicide.” These are part of the words of the mother of “Mojdeh Gholami”, […]

We have repeatedly spoken about Iranian Kurdish families who have fallen victim to inhumane rights violations such as enforced disappearances of youth, and the employment of child soldiers in militant groups such as the PKK / PJAK. We also expressed their demands and demands in their own language in the form of numerous conversations and […]

The correspondent of Iran Human Rights Watch in Iran has conducted continuous follow-ups in the framework of gaining the support of international human rights organizations to stand up for the rights of Iranian Kurdish children.  Our correspondent contacted Elizabeth Dekrey Warner, the former director of the Geneva Call, who has expressed her support of Iranian […]

Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch has held several interviews with former members of the PKK and PJAK, and published some cases surrounding the commanders of that group, including “Leyla Afrin”, “Hassan Mahmoudi”, “Shoresh Bokan”, “Evin Sineh”, “Delkhwaz Bingol”, Zulkuf, Azad Hawraz and Bozan Tekin. The following conversation is about one of the commanders of that […]