Iranian military is attcking the kurdish reigons in East Kurdistan in full force

EAST KURDISTAN, -- Military operations are carried out by the Turkish militaries to the north and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to the east of Kurdistan.
A long with the Turkish military operations in Kurdistan and the killing of the Kurds, Iranian militaries have also embarked on a large scale operation against the Kurds.
According to our news correspondence from East Kurdistan, the Revolutionary Guards Corps of Islamic Republic have stationed military units and live ammunitions in the border regions of Serdesht.
For the last four days the Revolutionary Guards have been setting ambushes in the surrounding areas of Doletu, Cholan and Niwawi of Serdesht district.
According to eyes witness the Iranian Revolutionary Guards had planted mines in the areas and threatened and pressurized the local people.
Similar operations are reported to have been underway in Bane and Meriwan districts.
It should be noted that tens of local people and farmers have lost their lives due to the mines planted and left behind by the Revolutionary Guards.

Source: http://www.welat.eu/english/component/content/article/1223-irans-military-operations-in-east-kurdistan

Sadeq Heshmatian, Iranian activist was Executed after 7 years of harsh torture by the Iranian government

According to reports, the death sentence of a prisoner who was transferred to a solitary cell in cellblock 1 in Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison in Karaj on Monday was carried out on Tuesday.
Sadeq Heshmatian, 27, was hanged in this prison after almost seven years of prison.
Despite being executed two days ago, the Judiciary and state-run media have still not announced this execution…
This young man was detained in Gohardasht Prison under harsh and inhumane conditions for close to seven years. Prison guards had transferred him to cellblock 5 known as the Methadone Cellblock and had kept him there for a long time to put pressure on him. He was recently transferred to cellblock 6. This young prisoner had protested the conditions in cellblock 5 along with his cellmates on a number of occasions and had taken over cellblock 5 with his cellmates twice. One of the reasons his death sentence was carried out was because he protested the dire prison conditions. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – May 25, 2011)

Iranian government continues their secret mass executions in Vakil Abad Prison in Khorasan

Despite the fact that judicial officials of the Islamic Republic are still keeping their silence regarding the execution of drug related prisoners in the Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad and refuse to announce the implementation of such death sentences and the numbers of executed prisoners, credible sources have said that in mid-March, April and May 2011 close to 70 prisoners were executed. These executions were carried out weekly and in groups. Despite the fact that limitations in reporting out of prison makes it difficult to determine the exact number of executions, these sources have confirmed 70 executions.
The sources have said that these executions were secretly carried out in groups in the Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad.
The last rounds of executions in the past two months were carried out on May 16 when 10 prisoners were hanged. These executions targeted drug related criminals who had been sentenced to death. They were carried out without the knowledge and presence of family members and lawyers and even without notifying the prisoners from before…

A number of prisoners charged with narcotics crimes have said that they were denied due process and in many cases, the execution sentences issued by judges of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court were issued without adequate evidence and only on the grounds of confessions taken under duress and torture. (International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran – May 25, 2011)

Source : http://www.freedomessenger.com/archives/28357

300 prisoners condemned to death by the iranian government and close to 250 prisoners sent for execution and life sentences

Jaffari Dolatabadi, Tehran’s criminal prosecutor of the clerical regime, announced yesterday that 300 prisoners have been condemned to death and the dossier of 250 prisoners condemned to death or life imprisonment have been sent to the judicial system. Thus, the clerical regime that has already admitted almost 200 executions been carried out since the beginning of this year is promising further executions and repression. The state news agency IRNA wrote, “Tehran’s revolution and general prosecutor stated that: We have 300 smugglers of narcotics that are condemned to death… and we, in Tehran’s Public Prosecutor’s Office have prepared 250 dossiers of those mostly condemned to death or life sentences which have been sent to the judicial system to carry out their sentences.” This criminal promised further executions saying, “We have not given grave writs on narcotics. In the last two months, we have had dossiers with heavy sentenced in this regard.”
In a fresh criminal act, Dolatabadi announced building of new camps for the addicts saying, “The transfer of addicts to these locations will rid the cities of their presence and it is our hope that the building of these camps and contributions from people would gather speed.” He also paved the way for plundering people’s properties under the pretext of “undertakings in regard of smugglers’ properties” saying: “More serious measures should be adopted regarding the property of smugglers.”

Statements by Tehran’s atrocious prosecutor, is a reflection of a trembling clerical regime as it faces its downfall and demise encountering deadlier crises with each passing day. In fear of the increasing wrath and loathe of Iran’s populace, and incapable of controlling the unbridled power struggle among its internal gangs that promise the demise of Velayat-e faqih regime, mullahs have found no other avenue but to increase the executions and to intensify an open suppression to create fear and terror in the society.

Source: http://www.freedomessenger.com/archives/28397

Iranian Government is Planing to Unplug from the worldwide Internet and Create their Own internet service

Iran is waging war on open Internet. Looking to limit the cyber-infiltration of Western ideas, Iran’s telecommunications chief claimed that, in two years time, all Iranians would be forced to use a state-censored, fully-internal Internet. About 60% of the nation’s homes and businesses are expected to be on it much sooner than that, he added. Iran sees the move toward heightened online policing as a way to uphold Islamic moral values, though whether it can truly block the world’s Internet remains an open question, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Iran has seen a proliferation of pro-democracy blogs and anti-regime activity made viral by Facebook and Twitter, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top officials support Internet regulation as a response to the “soft war” waged on them by the West. The country first plans to roll out its new network in parallel with the existing, open network, but expects to eventually make a full switch. The 11% of citizens who have Internet access will be forced to use a non-Microsoft operating system and a Google alternative called “Ya Hagh” (Oh, Justice). Click to read about Hosni Mubarak’s penalty for trying to unplug his nation.

Sourc: http://www.freedomessenger.com/archives/28419

4 Demands to halt Peaceful Campaign of Civil Disobedience by Kurds in Turkey

The Peaceful campaign of civil Disobedience In North Kurdistan has been going on for months  and Kurds have been peacefully protesting against the Turkish Policies against Kurdish people.in order to stop the Civil Disobedience movement, Kurds have announced  4 demands. those demands are :

1. Stop military and political operations immediately.
2. Education in the mother tongue and providing constitutional guarantees for use of the mother tongue in the public sphere  
3. Removing the 10% electoral threshold which obstructs the representation of Kurdish People in the Assembly
4. Release all political prisoners

 In order for the movement to put halt on their peaceful campaign all these 4 demands have to be met by the Turkish government .

14 kurds were detained in Suruç and Yüksekova area by the Turkish governme Forces

URFA (DİHA) – This morning, plain-clothes police and special operations teams carried out several house raids in the Aydın, Yıldırım and Cumhuriyet neighborhoods in Urfa’s Suruç district and detained Halil Aktaş, Salih Çağan, Arif Laçin, Ferhat Şeyli, İsmet Beyhan, and five others. Raids are continuing in the district while the reasons for the detentions remain unclear.

Also, in Hakkari’s Yüksekova District, police carried out many raids in the Orman and Güngör neighborhoods and took Zozan Duru, Şerif Kekik, Cevdet Ayvar and Mehdi Bor into custody.

During the raids, police made aggressive house searches and harassed residents.

Detainee Cevdet Ayvar’s mother, Gulav Ayvar said that, police insulted her when they entered her house. She added that they put guns to their heads while they were searching the house and warned them not to speak Kurdish.
Detainee Mehdi Bor’s mother, Kudret Bor, stated that police assaulted her son as they were taking him into custody and they are going to file a criminal complaint about this subject.

Source: http://diclenews.com/2/22/viewNews/258556

23 Kurds arrested in Adana, Turkey by the Turkish government

 23 people were taken into custody in the course of police operations carried out on Wednesday morning. The operations were carried out simultaneously at different places of Adana, a city on the south-eastern tip of the Mediterranean.

Police said the 23 detained people supposedly attended commemoration events held in Adana for Turkish leftist revolutionaries. On 18 May, it was the 38th anniversary of the death of İbrahim Kaypakkaya, founder of the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist Leninist (TKP/ML). Kaypakkaya died in 1973 in the Diyarbakır Prison after he had been tortured. The people taken into custody are also alleged of having attended an event on 6 May marking the 39th anniversary of the execution of Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Deniz Gezmiş and his companions Hüseyin İnan and Yusuf Arslan in 1972.

Various non-governmental organizations and democratic mass organizations protested the operations in a press release issued in Adana the same day.

ANF / ADANA

Source:  http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=2278

Ahmed Türk: National Kurdish Conference is a important step towards unity of Kurds

Speaking to DIHA News Agency, DTK (Democratic Society Congress) co-chair Ahmet Türk said: “the Kurdish people are expressing their demands through the actions they stage every day". Türk had been leading a delegation of Kurdish politicians and civil society activist to the Federal Kurdistan Region. The delegation met the authorities there and returned home after having secured a commitment for a "National Kurdish Conference" to be held possibly this fall.

"This is the period when demands become clear allowing the development of the process into a peace process - said Türk, adding - this is the period for the Kurds to achieve a status. Which problems do the people face today in Kurdistan, a land divided in four parts? What can we do for a democratic future and to solve these problems? These kind of basic issues call for a national conference and we are here to express our need for this conference.”

Ahmet Türk then strssed that the “greatest obstacle in front of us is the obstacle in front of the unity of Kurds. A structure needs to be formed to shape the unity of Kurds. So, we don’t see the elections as a working relevant to the parliament alone. We are also carrying out works for the emergence of the will of majority of Kurds".

Türk also pointed out that “During our meeting with Mr. Barzani, a mutual agreement has been reached about Kurdish National Conference and a will was offered for the determination of a commission to perform the workings on this base. We see the realization of these workings as a definitive, concrete and determined process. We can say for certain that the conference will take place in October.”

The conference is a very important step for the Kurds and it is opening the door of a new period for them in the whole world. Ahmet Türk also remarked that "We have determined the place of the conference as Kurdistan rather than Europe as it is a national conference involving all parties in Kurdistan. As a result, a structure needs to be created for Kurds to discuss about their problems together. The important thing is to build a stronger union for the meeting of these dialogues and negotiations. This is the process of fate determination for the Kurds which will also make contribution to all other peoples to gain their freedom. Here, an important responsibility goes to everyone. The demands of Kurds are clear and they present what they want.”

Translation: Berna Ozgencil
Source: http://en.firatnews.org/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=2280

Selah Mustafapur a Kurdish political prisoner was given 20 years jail time in exile by the Iranian government

SEQIZ, East Kurdistan, -- First Branch of Seqiz Revolutionary Court sentenced Selah Mustafapur a Kurdish political prisoner to 20 years in-exile-imprisonment in Minab prison in Hormozgan province.
Khelil Behramyan the lawyer of the prisoner confirmed the news in an interview with Mukryan News Agency and stated that Mr. Mustafapur was arrested in Seqiz 7 month ago and was charged with affiliation with of the Kurdish political group.
He also stated that Mustafapur will spend 20 years imprison in exile in Minab prison and the family visit of him is not allowed for that period.

Source: http://english.rojhelat.eu/component/content/article/1191-20-years-imprisonment-for-a-kurdish-political-prisoner

Another Kurd was Arrested in Kurdish city of Paveh by the iranian government forces

Following a wave of arrests in a small border town called Navsod [Kermanshah Province], on Saturday, May 14, 2011, another Kurdish citizen was detained by Iran’s Intelligence Agency in the city of Paveh. Prior to this arrest, many Kurdish citizens from the city of Navsod were detained since they began protesting the killing of a young man in Navsod’s Moalam Square. The young man who was the only child in his family has been identified as Pourmand Modahetnia. He was killed on March 22, 2011.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Heshmat Rezai, Kurdish citizen from Navsod, was summoned last week by the Revolutionary Court in Paveh to face charges of disturbing the peace and public order. On Saturday, May 14, 2011, Heshmat Rezai was detained by the intelligence agents and transferred to Kermanshah’s Diesel Abad prison.
It has been reported that the court in Paveh has summoned tens of citizens who protested against the killing of Pourmand Modahetnia. When a military convoy was also dispatched to Navsod to arrest those summoned by the court, clashes occurred between people and the police.

source : http://www.iranpressnews.com/english/source/098942.html

352 Kurdish children taken into custody by the Turkish Government

DIYARBAKIR, Kurdish Capital, -- The Human Rights Association (İHD) Diyarbakir Branch has published a new report on the number of Kurdish children who have been taken into custody and arrested in the first four months of the year.

The figures are shocking. According to the report, 352 children were taken into custody, while 116 of them were then remanded in custody. In the same period last year, the number of children taken into custody had been of 286 while those subsequently arrested had been 95.

In the last 16 months the number of children taken into custody rose to 638 while the children arrested have been 211.

IHD Diyarbakir Branch Secretary Raci Bilici accused the government, which changed the Anti-Terrorism Law in 2006, of allowing these children to be tried as if they were adults.

Lawyer Keziban Yılmaz also criticized the law, saying that: “these children were arrested for having taken part in a demonstration, having thrown stones, having chanted slogans or having shown victory signs. All of which was considered enough evidence for the court to punish them for being members of an illegal organizations. Some of the sentences given for such crimes are even longer than their age. The latest changes made to the Law on June 22, 2010, did not help to solve this problem. There is a law currently in effect allowing courts to punish children as if they were adults. We need to change it to save our children.”

At the same time of the İHD’s Diyarbakir press conference to denounce the trial against children, a child was remanded in custody together with seven adults for “producing propaganda for an illegal organization". They had been detained with 12 others following police’s house raids in Urfa and Cizre, two days ago.

Meanwhile the military operation in Diyarbakir’s district Lice continue, while the people in Adana held a protest against military operations. Police attacked the crowd and injured five demonstrators.

Source: http://english.rojhelat.eu/component/content/article/1187-352-kurdish-children-taken-into-custody

Destroying a mass grave of 22 bodies of Kurdish Freedom Fighters by the Turkish government

BETLIS, North Kurdistan, -- A mass-grave containing the bodies of 22 Kurdish guerrillas located in Betlis was destroyed by the Turkish officials, report said today.
To avoid the revelation of the atrocities of the Turkish regime and to evade the exhumation of the mass-graves in Mutki areas, all the sites where believed to be containing the bodies of Kurdish guerrillas, are covered by stones.
Under the pretext of road construction a mass-grave containing the bodies of 22 Kurdish guerrillas were destroyed in Betlis and the bodies of the guerrillas were exposed.
Hassan Ceylan the Human Rights’ Society Representative in Betlis stated that the destruction of this mass-grave is the blatant violation of human honour.
Mr. Ceylan stated that although they had previously informed the public prosecutor of the mass-grave which contains the bodies of 22-28 Kurdish guerrillas, but they have never done anything to excavate it.
Ceylan also informed about the existence of 4 mass-graves in Mutki and stated “although we have informed the state’s officials about the existence of these mass-graves but; instead of their excavation, the government’s agencies put stones on the mass-graves to hide them from the public”.

Source: http://english.rojhelat.eu/component/content/article/1186-destruction-of-a-mass-grave-in-betlis

attacks on innocent Kurdish workers by The Iranian Government are increasing rapidly

SERDESHT, -- Iranian armed offensives against the Kurdish workers toiling on the pseudo-borders of Kurdistan is unabated.
Underdevelopment and high rate of unemployment forced Kurdish workers to undertake the perilous work of smuggling goods into the country. Great numbers of these workers have been the victim of Iranian revolutionary guards who gun them down ruthlessly.
Two groups of Kurdish workers came under the gun fire of the Revolutionary Guards in the last couple of days, local sources reported.
A group of workers were targeted in the vicinity of Zoran and Wirtendwe. Two people are reported to be heavily wounded and the soldiers confiscated the workers’ goods.
In another instance, the Iranian soldiers who are supposed to protect the Iranian people, opened fire on another group in the region of Goresher of Serdesht and a worker is reported seriously wounded.
In that raid numbers of heads of the livestock were killed.

Source: http://english.rojhelat.eu/component/content/article/1182-unabated-attacks-on-kurdish-workers
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Iran Government murders the Kurds and distorts the truth by blaming Kurdish Politcial parties

URMIYE, -- The Iranian Revolutionary Guards murder the Kurds and then they distort the news to mislead the public opinion and pretend innocent.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard murdered a 21 years old Karwan Said Niyai few days ago around the Urmiye Lake for an unfound reason.
To mislead the public opinion, few days after the murder, the Revolutionary Guard claimed that the murder was just an act of accident.
According to our local sources the perpetrators have told the family of Karwan that their boy was killed by accident.

Source: http://english.rojhelat.eu/component/content/article/1177-iran-murders-the-kurds-and-distorts-the-truth
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Turkish police attacked peaceful marches all over North Kurdistan

NORTH KURDISTAN, -- In the funeral day of Kurdish guerrillas who lost their life in Uludere on the 13 and 14 May, Turkish police has carried out raids and made scores of arrests.
A total of 252 people, including many children and a 70-year- old woman in Bingöl, were taken into custody. Many of the people were detained after the many demonstrations organized in many Kurdish cities to protest against the ongoing military operations and in particular against the slaughter of 12 young PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) guerrillas on May 12 and 14 in the rural areas of Uludere, a district of Sirnak.

The long list of arrests started in the early hours of Tuesday morning: 47 people have been taken into custody in Yenimahalle, Gazi and Berçelan (all in the province of Hakkari); 54 people have been taken into custody in Hakkari; 20 in Siirt; 50 in Diyarbakır; one in Ergani and one in Çınar (province of Diyarbakır). The list continued with at least five people taken into custody in Bingöl, including 70 years old Zahide Yıldız, who has been taken to hospital after feeling ill; 15 people have been detained in Cizre, 11 in Kurtalan (in the province of Siirt). A further 53 in Gaziosmanpaşa (a neighbourhood of Istanbul) following a march attended by over 10 thousand people; two in Bahçesaray, a district of Van; 13 in Manisa; two in Patnos, a district of Ağrı; at least three in Kızıltepe, a district o f Mardin; two in Kars, five in Doğubeyazıt, a district of Kars; two Elazığ, four Adana; four in Van; and one in Muğla.

Protests and clashes had been going on all day in several places. The police turned the region into battle field.

Labor, Democracy and Freedom Block candidates like Şerafettin Elçi, Gültan Kısanak, Nursel Aydoğan, Emine Ayna, Altan Tan, Leyla Zana, Hasip Kaplan, Sabahat Tuncel, Levent Tüzel, and many Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) managers, including Co-Chair Filiz Koçali, and Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir had joined the protests.

Turkish police used gas bombs and pressurized water to disperse the crowd in Batman, in Silopi, a district of Şırnak; in Beyoğlu and Gaziosmanpaşa, districts of İstanbul; in Çınar and Ergani, districts of Diyarbakır (four including two children); one in Milas, a district of Muğla; five in Elazığ; in Doğubeyazıt, a district of Ağrı; Yüzüncü Yıl University and four in Başkale, district of Van; Hakkari; Adana.

So far, among the many injured, a child is reported to be in serious condition in Şırnak’s district Silopi.

As well as demonstrations to honour the guerrillas, all shutters were down in Hazro, İdil, Çınar, Bismil and Lice, districts of Diyarbakır; Elazığ; Iğdır; Malazgirt, Bulanık, districts of Muş; Uludere, Yüksekova, Çukurca and Şemdinli, districts of Hakkari and in Hakkari Centre; Kızıltepe, Nusaybin and Derik; districts of Mardin, Batman; İdil, Silopi, districts of Şırnak; Suruç, a district of Urfa; Kurtalan, a district of Siirt; Doğubayazıt and Diyadin, districts of Ağrı; Başkale and Tatvan, districts of Van and also in Van centre; Kars; İstanbul’s many districts; Denizli; Edremit, a district of Balıkesir; and Bingöl. Three days of mourning had been announced in all of these places.

Eleven vehicles were set on fire in İstanbul’s district Bakırköy.

BDP plans to hold a march in İzmir tomorrow in the context of demonstrations to be organized in many cities. ANF

Source: http://english.rojhelat.eu/component/content/article/1178-turkish-police-attacked-marches-all-over-kurdistan-
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3 Kurdish children became the latest victims of Turkish police brutality

MARDIN, North Kurdistan, -- Turkish police attacked the demonstrations all over Kurdistan acts with impunity. Once again Kurdish children have been the victims of Turkish police brutality during the events in Mardin's Nusaybin and Kiziltepe districts in the last 24 hours.
Three children between the age of 3 and 15, wounded by gas bombs thrown by police, are fighting for their life in hospital.

Clashes continued till late last night in Nusaybin and Kiziltepe districts of Mardin, where life came to a standstill for three days following the death of HPG guerrillas in the military operations of the Turkish army.
Police teams, stepping back during some clashes, once again targeted little children and cut across all boundaries while attacking children who responded to gas bombs with small stones in their hands. Within the last 24 hours, three children, two in Nusaybin and one in Kızıltepe, got seriously wounded by gas bombs and taken to hospital for treatment.

THREE YEARS OLD ZEHRA FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE

During a clash between police officers and young demonstrators who barricaded the 27 May Street’s road in Nusaybin, 15 years old Muğdat Muğdatoğlu was seriously injured with the gas bomb hitting his head.
One other child getting wounded during clashes is 3 years old Zehra Altun who was targeted by police while playing in front of their house and got critically wounded with the gas bomb firework hitting her head. The little child, taken to Nusaybin State Hospital by her family, is still under treatment.

HIT ON EYE FROM 10 METERS

Clashes broke out in Tepebası Neighbourhood of Kızıltepe when police intervened in young demonstrators with gas bombs. 12-year-old Roni Ilden, who got wounded on the right eye with a gas bomb thrown in the Democratic Solution Tent in the clash area, was taken under treatment in Kızıltepe State Hospital.

Source: http://english.rojhelat.eu/component/content/article/1180-three-children-the-last-victims-of-turkish-police-brutality-

Habib Latifi’s execution sentence has been CONFIRMED by Iranian Supreme court. Habib is at imminent risk of Execution

This political prisoner’s sentence was supposed to take place on December 26th, 2010, but was postponed after a huge crowd in Sanandaj gathered to contest it and was ordered off just before dawn (the time of the execution).
According to Kurdish News Agencies, this sentence was sent to the Supreme Court on December 28th and was returned to the court of justice of Sanandaj after only 24 hours.

No specific time has been mentioned for the execution, but the informants of this case have told that his sentenced has only been postponed as a matter of safeguard and that it could be conducted at any time.
Mr Latifi’s family have also confirmed this news.

According to reports, civil rights activists have prepared a letter addressed to the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Khamenehei asking for a special pardon for Habibollah Latifi, 4th and last year industrial student in Ilam University, who was arrested in October 2007. He is accused of conspiracy against the National Security and insurgence and was then sentenced to death. The leter has been signed by hundreds of people in Sanandaj.

2 activist which were also brothers Mohammad and Abdullah Fathi were excuted in Iranian today

Two bothers Mohammad and Abdullah Fathi aged 27 and 28 years old were executed today in Esfahan’s General Detention in a country said to be ruled by the Republic of Execution.

The family of these brothers, whose charges were Mohareb, “enmity with God”, said their boys confessed to what they had not done under severe tortures. “There charge was completely groundless and our sons were innocent,” the family said.
According to the reports of the International Committee of Anti-Execution, the mother of the two had visited her sons just few hours before the execution and they told their mother they were completely innocent and they confessed to what they had not done under extensive tortures.
Including this case, 219 people have been executed since the beginning of this year in Iran.

 

25 individuals were excuted by the Iranian government only in 1 week

Tehran, 16 May (AKI) - Twenty-five prisoners were executed in Iran in a single week and at least were 6 hanged in public, the Iranian dissident group the National Council of Resistance of Iran said Monday in a statement.
Among the hangings, three prisoners were executed in Qazvin and Tonokabon on Saturday and four prisoners were put to death in Kerman on Friday.
"In another brutal, middle-ages-style act, 9 Arab- speaking Iranians were hanged in Ahvaz on May 8. Six of them were hanged in the Karun prison of Ahvaz and 3 others, who were brothers and were from 21 to 25 years of age, were hanged in public," the statement said.
Prior to their executions, the victims were paraded through the streets of suburbs of Ahvaz in Khuzestan province, the statement added.
Iran so far this year has executed over 300 people, according to human rights groups.
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and other human rights groups have spoken out against Iran for its use of capital punishment.
The country is alleged to have the second highest execution rate in the world, after China.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran, founded in 1981 in France, is the parliament in exile of the "Iranian Resistance", and is a political umbrella coalition of five Iranian opposition political organizations, the largest organization being the People's Mujahedin of Iran.

Source: http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Iran-25-people-executed-in-one-week-including-6-public-hangings_312020949621.html

Turkish Government shells the Eastern Kurdistan villages ( Iranian part of Kurdistan)

URMIYE, East Kurdistan, -- The inhuman offensives of the occupying powers of Kurdistan have recently taken a dramatic scale. Both Turkey and Iran have armed themselves to the teeth escalating their colonialist measures against the Kurds.
Through the heavy shelling of the county side of Urmiye, the Turkish army targeted scores of Kurdish women who were collecting hay. One woman was killed on the scene and three others were wounded.
A Kurdish woman named as Qedtey Islami was killed by the heavy shelling of Kurdish country side in Urmiye; three others wounded and were taken to Urmiye hospital.

Source: http://english.rojhelat.eu/

Names of those Kurds arrested by the Syrian government in May 2011

WEST KURDISTAN, -- Many Kurds have been arrested by the Syria security forces during the mass uprising demanding the end to the oligarchic and military regimes.
According to several human rights organisations between 1 – 6 May 2011 the following people were arrested:
 In al-Hassaka:
•Sipan Hassan, in an internet cafe.

In Qamishli:
•Akram Darwish, he had been taking photographs of the demonstrations.
•Sherzad Abdulqader Mussa
•Mohammed Shabib
•Nasradin Ahmi, the activist

In Deyrik:

•Diyar Sabri,
•Jotyar Sayfadin
•Idris Adel Mohammed
•Juan Hamed Mirza
•Sipan Azad Ismail
•Tashid Mahsum al-Dershoi
•Haji Yusef

On 7 May 2011, Akram Hossain was arrested after he had been talking to al-Arabiya
On 9 May 2011 the following Kurds were detained after being summoned by military security in Qamishli:

• Anwar Nasso,
•Marwan Hussein,
•Abdul Mohsen Khalaf,
•Feysal al-Qaderi,
•Dilyar Khani,
•Farhad Khani, and
•Jamal Ali Ali.

On 10 May 2011, Kurdish activist Luqman Suleiman was arrested and has since been detained.
The following Kurds were participating in the demonstration in Afrin on 13 May 2011. They were followed to their houses and arbitrarily arrested:

•Azia Ebesh
•Mahmoud Khalil
•Mohammed Burri
•Alan Yusef
•Luqman Berimko
•Mohammed Musto
•Ala Sadeq
•Mohammed Kilo
•Fereydoon Sheikh Mustafa
•Nechirvan Yusef
•Aziz Jaffar
•Serwan Muslim
•Delvan Bakar
•Kenjo Kenjo
•Mohammed Ebesh
•Fiyeq Yusef

Source:www.english.rojhelat.eu

Protesters in Serêkanî (Ras al-Ayn) chant: "We will sacrifice our blood and soul for Banyas"

thousands of kurds continued their demonstration against Syrian government in kurdish city of Qamishlo

QAMISHLI, West Kurdistan, -- Thousands of Kurdish people in West Kurdistan poured to the street protesting against the colonial ruling of Baath regime over Kurdistan and demanding the military actions which have killed hundred of protesters.
"The demonstrations are expanding in numbers," Habib Ibrahim told Reuters, adding that demonstrations erupted in the provincial capital of Qamishli and in the smaller towns of Amouda and Derabasiyeh near the border with Turkey.
The Kurdish people in West Kurdistan have been subjected to the most brutal and inhuman aspect of colonialism. They are regarded as refugees in their home land and have not access to Syrian ID and passport.

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Turkish police detained 2506 Kurds in 50 days in North Kurdistan

KURDISTAN, -- This figures are shocking and yet as far as the international bodies goes no one has so far said a single word. A total of 2506 people were taken into police custody in Turkey between 24 March and 11 May 2011.
Figures which compared to those coming out of Syria, for example, are similar or worse. Two people have lost their life as results of operations that resulted in the arrest of more than 400 people.
According to figures compiled by ANF and Dicle News Agency (DİHA), an estimated 2506 people were taken into police custody for political reasons in the course of police operations that started after the Newroz festivals and peaked with the veto decision of the Supreme Election Board (YSK) on 18 April.
Hundreds of people were arrested. Only within the past five days, 155 people were taken into custody and 53 people were arrested.

2000 people in police custody between 24 March and 29 April

According to figures released by the Human Rights Association (İHD), 831 people, 189 of whom were children, were taken into police custody after the veto decision of the YSK between 19 and 29 April.
The YSK had decided to bar twelve independent candidates from the general elections, a decision that was partly reversed later on. During the same period of time, two people were killed by the police and 308 people were injured during demonstrations.

About 500 people in custody after May Day.

Here some figures in detail: at least 177 people were taken into police custody in the scope of operations carried out between 29 April and 5 May.

On Friday 6 May, 163 people were taken into police custody in Kurdish provinces and Hatay/Dörtyol, Bodrum and Adana, 19 of whom were arrested. On 7 May, another 24 arrests and an additional eleven people were registered. This rate increased further between 7 and 11 May. Throughout five days, 155 people were taken into custody and 53 were arrested. On 9 May, seven university students were arrested, among them one DİHA reporter. On 10 May, 34 people were taken into police custody, three of them are alleged members of the 'Group Comment' organization.

Police operations were conducted in Hakkari, Mardin, Şırnak, Diyarbakır, Siirt, Van, Urfa, Söke, Erzurum and Malatya between 7 and 11 May.

The İHD 2009 annual report revealed that 7718 people were taken into police custody throughout the whole year, 1923 of whom were detained.

The 2010 report puts forward that only in Kurdish region the number of people taken into custody amounted to 3,706 people.

In 2011, only during the 50 days between Newroz and 1 May more than 2500 people were taken into police custody.