Businesses in several Kurdish cities in Iran went on strike Wednesday after Kurdish groups called for a protest against the ...

Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...

Several individuals in Sanaa, Saqiz and Sardasht, in Iran’s Kurdistan region, have been arrested for participating in strikes ...

ALBAWABA - In a horrifying incident that set the internet ablaze, a Kurdish woman who miraculously escaped prison in Iran's Kurdistan claims to have bee ...

Iran's record execution rate casts shadow on death penalty reprieve for Kurdish activist Pakhshan Azizi - Activist stands ...

At least 901 people were reportedly executed in Iran last year, including about 40 in a single week in December, according to the UN human rights chief.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The United States on Tuesday called on Iran to overturn the death sentence of Kurdish woman Pakhshan Azizi and to stop targeting Kurds after she was sentenced for ...

Iranian Kurdish opposition groups called for a general strike in the western Kurdish areas (Rojhelat) on Wednesday to condemn ...

There were reports that officers battered the Kurdish woman with a baton; the police claimed she suffered a heart attack ... The protests have continued across Iran despite efforts to detain not just ...

Iran has given temporary reprieve from execution to Kurdish activist Pakhshan Azizi ... Ms Azizi, 40, who worked to shelter women and children displaced by the war in Syria, received last-minute ...

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on Thursday called for an "end" to the Islamic republic and urged human ...