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Rights Groups Condemn Iran’s Executions of 20 Kurdish Prisoners
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA ; Mehdi Jedinia, Sirwan Kajjo
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Rights Groups Condemn Iran’s Executions of 20 Kurdish Prisoner
VOA in English
Mehdi Jedinia, Sirwan Kajjo
Human rights groups on Thursday condemned the execution of at least
20 Kurdish activists in Iran who had been charged with links to
terrorism.
A statement by the Iranian intelligence ministry confirmed the
Wednesday executions, saying the convicts were part of a terrorist cell
that was responsible for armed attacks in Iran’s western provinces.
"These people had committed murder... killed women and children,
caused destruction and acted against the security, and killed Sunni
religious leaders in some Kurdish regions," Mohammad Javad Montazeri,
Iran’s top prosecutor, told IRIB TV, a state-run channel.
The Iranian government said that the men had ties to foreign Islamist
groups, an apparent reference to Islamic State, and that they were
plotting to carry out attacks inside Iran. But rights activists said the
government’s accusations were baseless.
Imprisoned earlier
“Some of them had been in prison even before Daesh [Islamic State] or
other Sunni extremist groups appeared in the region,” said an attorney
from Tehran who requested anonymity.
Shahram Ahmadi, 29, a Kurdish activist from Sanandaj, was among those
who were hanged. He was reportedly arrested for distributing leaflets
that demanded rights for the Sunni minority in Iran.
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Kurdish American 2016 Presidential Preference Survey: Clinton vs. Trump
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Kurdish American 2016 Presidential Preference Survey: Clinton vs. Trump
راپه رسى له كورده كانى نيشته جى ولاته يكگرتووه كانى ئه مريكا، سه باره ت به هه لبژاردنه كانى سه روك كومارى ئه مريكا
Dear Fellow Kurdish American Community Members!
Hope you're all well.
As election season is in full swing, there is a lot at stake for us.
There is an information gathering survey titled "Kurdish American 2016 Presidential Preference Survey" that only takes a couple minutes to fill out.
The survey is confidential and purely for information gathering purposes. It can help us gauge the community's level of engagement with the U.S. Presidential elections.
The survey is sponsored by Kurdish American Committee for Democracy and Human Rights and VOKRadio (Voice of Kurdish American Radio for Democracy, Peace and Freedom).
The results will be publicized in mid August and will be made available for anyone to use in their analysis.
So far more than 2000 people have viewed the survey and a couple hundred have responded. Not all those responses can be counted but it's a good start.
Please take a few moments to fill this out:
Much due respect,
Azad Moradian
Chair of Kurdish American committee for Democracy and Human Rights.
Los Angeles
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How clashes inside Iran remake regional equations?
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Rudaw.net
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How clashes inside Iran remake regional equations?
By: Rudaw
July 5th, 2016
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region-Largely peaceful demonstrators in the Iranian city of Isfahan called recently on their government to withdraw from Syria and concentrate its efforts instead on its own disfranchised people.
"Let Go of Syria; Think of Iran," was the slogan chanted in rhyming Persian by hundreds of marchers last Friday. It was chanted, ironically, at the annual Quds public rally, which is held every year on the last Friday of Ramadan to mark commitment to the liberation of Palestine.
Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has been seen as virtually the only regional super power in the Middle East without a formidable internal opposition that could effectively destabilize its regional grip.
While Turkey, Iraq, Egypt and even the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have constantly been dealing with separatist or extremist groups within their borders, Iran has successfully been able to sideline or dismantle powerful political parties and their armed wings such as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq and the once influential Communist Party, the Toudeh.
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What's Behind Sudden Clashes In Northwestern Iran
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Golnaz Esfandiari ; rferl
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What's Behind Sudden Clashes In Northwestern Iran?
June 29, 2016
By: Golnaz Esfandiari
rferl
Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran train as they prepare to celebrate Norouz, the Persian New Year, in the town of Koya, 100 kilometers north of Irbil in Iraq's Kurdish region, in March.
Clashes erupted this month between Kurdish fighters and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), with each side claiming to have inflicted casualties on the other. The country's heavily censored media have even reported the fighting andacknowledged fatalities on the government side. But why the sudden flare-up?
Who is fighting and how widespread is the violence? The past two weeks of fighting have reportedly pitted official forces against members of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), with deadly clashes between the IRGC and Kurdish rebels in heavily Kurdish northwestern Iran, near the border with Iraq. Combat was reported on June 15-16 in Oshnavieh, in Iran's West Azerbaijan Province. More fighting followed in the nearby Sarvabad, Mahabad, and Marivan regions.
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Kurdish Peshmerga Units Battle Regime Forces in Iran
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Bryan Mauro
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Kurdish Peshmerga Units Battle Regime Forces in Iran
Successful resistance by the Kurds could spark uprisings by other oppressed minorities in Iran who account for about half of Iran's population.
By: Ryan Mauro
Tue, June 21, 2016
The protests of the Green Revolution in Iran may no longer be on our television screens, but that doesn’t mean resistance to the Iranian regime has disappeared. The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan(PDKI) has confirmed that six of its fighters were killed in a battle with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, the regime’s elite security force and terrorism-sponsoring outfit.
The PDKI claims that their Peshmerga forces were fired upon first in the town of Shno in northwestern Iran. The regime also confirmed the fighting, describing the PDKI fighters as “terrorists.” The Kurds say they killed a dozen Revolutionary Guards and injured 14.
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