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Sirvan Doreh , has a history of membership in Komala
Sirvan Doreh: The reason of joining was solely poverty, unemployment, and lack of money. According to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch from Sanandaj, due to lack of infrastructure development and high rates of poverty and unemployment in Iran’s border areas, especially Kurdish areas of Iran, young people in this region are facing chronic unemployment. […]
Mobin Aziznejad and the promise of dispatch to Europe
The repetitive method of PAK to deceive Iranian Kurdish youth like Mobin Aziznejad. Mobin Aziznejad, born in 2001 and a former member of PAK, is one of the young individuals who was deceived by PAK’s promises and was a member of this group for a while. According to the reporter of the Iranian Kurdistan Human […]
Idris Rostami joined PAK for quitting drug
Idris Rostami: The main reason for my membership in the PAK was the economic issues and low income in Iran. Idris Rostami, born in 1994 in Marivan, is one those who fell into the trap of PAK and has been in this group for 4 years in order to obtain a residence card which is […]
Mob attack on dance event in Turkey
Mob attack on dance event in Turkey’s southeast Diyarbakır raises fears of organized intolerance. In Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır (Amed), a cultural event organized by a private dance school in a public space was attacked by a group shouting religious slogans, resulting in injuries to several bystanders and participants. An outdoor dance event organized by a […]
PAK misuses family disputes of a Kurdish woman to recruit her
Fatemeh Choupanposht joined PAK with her two-year-old son. According to the IKHRW from Bukan, one of the social problems in Kurdish areas of Iran is forced marriage, family disputes and inappropriate behavior towards women and girls. In fact, the Kurdish woman is forced to seek refuge with an armed group to escape social disorder and […]
Truth in the Heart of Darkness: Ejin’s Mother in Search of Her Kidnapped Daughter
A report of a mother’s search to get family’s only daughter, Ejin back, from PAK. Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch recently conducted an interview with the mother of a girl named Ejin Amini, joined the Kurdistan Liberation Armed Group at 14. This shows that child soldiers and its effects in the local communities of Iranian […]
PJAK’s new crime; Setting a record in the forced disappearance of a Kurdish young man
One of the daily and consistent crimes of PJAK and of course other Kurdish armed groups is the forced disappearance of members. According to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, the crimes of the PJAK terrorist group against Iranian Kurdish youth and teenagers are still continuing and every day, new aspects of the inhumane actions […]
The continual use of children as soldiers in P.K.K
Firat news agency, the official organ of P.K.K armed group, has announced that it has recruited new members. The P.K.K announced in news: “9 more youths announced their joining to P.K.K by reading a statement. These young people declared that living freely in the mountains is Abdullah Ojalan’s lifestyle.” (Assuming the news is true and […]
The hollow promises of the Kurdistan Freedom Armed Group (PAK) to recruit members and deceive the Kurdish youth
One of the Iranian Kurdish citizens who planned to join this armed group, has recently published a series of his conversations with the supporters of this group on the virtual network. Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, as a human rights watch and active in the field of monitoring human rights violations in the Kurdish areas […]
Women, identity and armed conflicts
The use of women and girls as “human shields” is a global issue that is pursued in international capacities to prevent humanitarian disasters. In the Middle East today, the two keywords “gender” and “ethnicity” have become the basis and focus of the actions of various performers in various conflicts. Meanwhile, the marginalization of women and […]