The Kurdish Human Rights Situation Report in April 2020

KMMK:

This is KMMK’s monthly report, April 2020, on human rights situation in eastern Kurdistan. It summarizes key human rights issues on events during April 2020, including executions, detentions, torture and suicide. Data are collected from several sources of KMMK, including direct reports.

This report does not include every issue and event. The absence of an issue is due to  (resource limitations, restriction to access to the country) the availability of information, and silencing independent voices, civic and human rights groups by the Iranian government.
 
In April 2020 Iranian government continued its disregard for basic human rights by discrimination, executions, illegal detention of Kurdish citizens, torture, violating basic rights of prisoners and closing off any possibility of organized political activities that are not fully aligned with its propaganda.

Execution:

In April 2020, Iran executed at least nine prisoners. There were several reports on more executions that due to lack of credible sources we do not publish the names:
   

First name	Family name	Age	City	Accusation	Dare of excecuation
Mostafa	Salimi	51	Saqqez	Political activism	11.04.2020
Shayan	Saeedpour	unkown	Saqqez	Premeditated murder	21.04.2020
Loghman	Ahmadpour	30	Baneh	Premeditated murder	22.04.2020
Sina	Mohammadi	26	Dehgolan	Premeditated murder	23.04.2020
Ramiar	Mokhles	28	Baneh	Premeditated murder	24.04.2020
Abdulwahed	Feyzi	unkown	Baneh	Premeditated murder	24.04.2020
Zrar	Peyghami	53	Shno	Premeditated murder	28.04.2020
Yaser	Rasouli	30	Boukan	Premeditated murder	28.04.2020
Fayegh	Sharifi	unkown	Divandarreh	Premeditated murder	28.04.2020

In the city of Saqqez, this month after the prisoner’s escape on March 2020 more prisoners executed.

Imprisonment and illegal detention:

In April 2020, at least fourteen Kurdish civilians have been detained or by Iranian security forces.. Most of detainees were arrested without any clear accusation and without court order.  There are political, civic and environmental activists among those who have been arrested. They have been beaten and tortured by security forces.
  

First name	Family name	Place of detention	Date	Accusation
Gholamreze	Nouri Ali	Kermanshah	03.04.2020	Reporting on COVID-19
Amir	Babai	Kermanshah	08.04.2020	Journalism
Ghasem	Atai Azimi	Bojnurd	14.04.2020	Unkown – he is media and poletical activist
Kamran	Abdiour	Saqqez	20.04.2020	Unkown
Esmail	Ardavani	Marivan	23.04.2020	Collaborating with Kurdish opposition parties
Farhad	Ahmadipour	Baneh	30.04.2020	Unkown
Biston	Ahmadipour	Baneh	30.04.2020	Unkown
Khalil	Karimi	Baneh	30.04.2020	Unkown
Karim	Karimi	Baneh	30.04.2020	Unkown
Barzan	Karimi	Baneh	30.04.2020	Unkown
Hadi	Ahmadpour	Baneh	30.04.2020	Unkown
Edris	Karimzadeh	Baneh	30.04.2020	Unkown
Farshad	Rahmani	Kamyaran	30.04.2020	Unkown
Mohammah	Ebrahimzameh	Piranshahr	30.04.2020	Collaborating with Kurdish opposition parties

Kolbar:

Kolbar (Kurdish: کۆڵبەر‎) is a worker who is employed to carry goods on his/her back across the borders. Most Kolbars live in eastern Kurdistan and they come from the poorest regions in the area. Kolbars are mostly considered illegal and have no insurance, retirement plans and unions.

In this month several Kolbars have been shot directly by Iranian forces and as a result two Kolbers died and three badly wounded.

     Died  Kolbars:
    

First name	Family name	Age	Place of incident	Cause of death	Date
Borhan	Jonyanlou	24	Maku hights	Direct shooting by Iranian border forces	08.04.2020
Asghar	Mohammadi	Unkown	Nabikand hights	Unkown	09.04.2020

    Wounded Kolbar:
    

First name	Family name	Age	Place of incident	Cause of injury	Date
Majid	Unkown	Unkown	Maku border	Direct shooting by Iranian border forces	08.04.2020
Unkonw	Unkown	Unkown	Maku border	Direct shooting by Iranian border forces	08.04.2020
Majid	Berai	Unkown	Sheikh Salu village	Direct shooting by Iranian border forces	13.04.2020

Suicide and self-immolation:

In April 2020 at least eleven people mainly women committed suicide and self-immolation.

First name	Family name	Age	Place	Reason	Date
Serveh	Abdi	16	Saqqez	Unkown	04.04.2020
Male – Unknown		33	Ilam	Poverty and unemployment	16.04.2020
Female -Unknown		12	Ilam	Poverty and unemployment	16.04.2020
Saman	Ansari	Unkown	Kamyaran	Poverty and unemployment	18.04.2020
Darya	Mohammadi	24	Senneh (Sanandaj)	Family problems	22.04.2020
Negin	Amini	34	Sonqor	Poverty and unemployment	22.04.2020
Sharifeh	Mostafapour	32	Saqqez	Family problems	22.04.2020
Afsaneh	Rahimi	29	Saqqez	Family problems	22.04.2020
Manij	Ghaderi	26	Naqade	Unkown	24.4.2020
Female- Z.	Q.	25	Senneh (Sanandaj)	Family problems	26.04.2020
Female- L.	Ghaderi	50	Kamyaran	Family problems	30.04.2020

KMMK encourages Kurdish people in eastern Kurdistan to practice their basic human rights and report to international institutions and to the worl, the discriminations and violetions of human rights by Iranian regime.
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