Many PKK news outlets delay the death announcements of the killings of their members for several years. However, we have seen that they never publish accurate information about the place and time of the killing, and thus cannot be trusted. They have been seen many times announcing the wrong names and switching up photographs of […]

IKHRW continues its interviews with the victims of PJAK and PKK crimes, this time with Asrin Mohammadi’s brother. The 13-year old girl from Sardasht disappeared in August 2017 near her parents’ home in the outskirts of a small village in Sardasht. Asrin was in middle school at the time she disappeared. On April 19 2020, […]

It didn’t take more than three months from membership to the death of Sirvan Khairabadi! In its experience and expertise with the problems families of militia recruits, IKHRW can conclude that socioeconomic issues are the most mentioned reason for recruitment of young people from Iranian Kurdistan. Socioeconomic problems and its many examples have always created […]

The reports that are continuously sent to the human rights watchdog of Iranian Kurdistan show very unfortunate dimensions of the situation of Iranian Kurdish citizens in the border areas. Militant groups that have been the opposition for many years, both during the Pahlavi period and during the Islamic Republic, and have always been instrumental in […]

The lies and deceit of PKK/PJAK media, along with the extensive inhumane and human rights violation actions of these groups against their own members and their families, shows that it is necessary for international human rights institutions to intervene in the issue. And don’t let the many problems and pains of Iranian Kurdish families increase […]

According to the Human Rights Watch of Iran’s Kurdistan and quoted by Firat News Agency – the official media organ of the PKK/PJAK group – again, an Iranian youth was killed in the clashes between the PKK and Turkey; But the PKK group announced the news after 5 years. At the same time, this is […]

Socioeconomic problems lie at the foundations of recruitment of young Iranian Kurds by militant groups. Lack of job opportunities, education, and development of rural areas shape the young people in the environment in such a way that they become easy targets for groups as PKK, and its Iranian offshoot PJAK. During an interview that Mehran […]

What do they teach these people in the course of three months? How can they to be ready for war, how does their consciousness accept to kill the youth of a family in less than three months after joining them?! Sirvan Khairabadi’s father, in his contact with the reporter of Human Rights Watch of Iranian […]

According to the definition of sociologists, the concept of sect refers to any group that uses mind control methods and deception as a method for recruiting members. These methods are used in the process of deceiving people to join the cult and persuading them to stay in the cult and turning the members into “captains”. […]

The shepherds of the country’s border areas are not safe from PJAK. During the past years, the members of PJAK that roam the country’s border areas and enter and leave the country from Iraqi Kurdistan, where their camps are based, have been attacking the shepherds and the villages in order to get the necessities of […]