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Iranian
Kurdistan News in brief
6.1.2014 |
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January 6, 2014
Mariwan - Mehabad - Sanandaj (Sne) - Baneh - Saqiz -
Paweh- Kermanshah -
Urmiye (Orumiye), Nowsud,
Sardasht, Bokan, [Eastern
Kurdistan, Iranian Kurdistan]
Iranian security forces
killed a Kurdish man and dragged his body behind a
car
Iranian security forces dragged the body of a
26-year-old Kurdish man behind a car for two
kilometers after that the security forces had killed
him. On Saturday, January 4, Iranian security forces
shot and killed a 26-year-old Kurdish man by the
name of Saman Khzri in the town of Sardasht. Khzri’s
body was stripped naked and dragged behind a car for
two kilometers, witnesses told Kurdpa. “The security
forces dumped the naked body of this 26-year-old
youth in a place called Khre Shiwe Kodo”, a witness
said. Saman Khzri had just gotten married a couple
of months ago. kurdpa.com | pdki.org
In Iran, violence against
women highest among Kurds
About 88 percent of women in
Iran’s Kurdistan Province reportedly experience some
form of abuse, among the highest in the country.
According to the BBC’s Persian service, 66.3 percent
of Iranian women experience violence in their lives,
but Kurdistan Province and the city of Ahvaz are
reported to be the two most violent cities for
females. The United Nations defines violence against
women as "any act of gender-based violence that
results in, or is likely to result in, physical,
sexual or mental harm or suffering to women,
including threats of such acts, coercion, or
arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring
in public or in private life." Despite the huge
numbers of women living with abuse in Kurdistan
Province, abusive men enjoy impunity under the
patriarchal laws of Iran’s Islamic Republic.
According to the Kurdpa news agency, in the Fall of
2013, 33 Kurdish women were reported to have
experienced violence. Fifteen women committed
suicide, eight were imprisoned (three of them
activists) and seven were executed by the Iranian
government. Activists say that Kurdish men and
women need to receive education about the definition
of violence and its effects on women, children and
society. They complain that the Iranian government
does not seem to have any intention of raising
awareness in this regard and only Kurds themselves
can make a difference...rudaw.net
Kurdish man injured in
landmine explosion in Ilam
Ilam: A 55-year-old Kurdish man lost one of his legs
in a landmine explosion in village of Qalawezane,
located in the Ilam province, Kurdpa reported.
Hussein Daweri, a 55-year-old Kurdish man, stepped
on a landmine that was left from the Iran-Iraq war.
Residents of Ilam said that Iranian authorities has
not cleared the region of thousands of landmines
left from the Iran-Iraq war despite numerous
promises to do so. According to a report published
last week by the local authorities in the Kurdish
town of Qasre Shirin 13 individuals have died and
another 78 have been injured in 105 landmine
explosions during the past 22 months in and around
the town. Residents of the Qasre Shirin believe that
the real numbers of landmine victims are much higher
but the local authorities are hiding the real
numbers on orders of the government. Every year
hundreds of Kurds fall victim to landmine explosions
in Iranian Kurdistan. pdki.org
Kurdish human rights
activist arrested in the University of Orumiye
Urmia: A Kurdish Woman who is a known human rights
activist was arrested by Iran’s intelligence agency
in the Urmia Islamic Azad University, Kurdpa
reported. Shermin Qadri, who is 29-years-old and
originally from the city of Mahabad, was arrested by
Iranian intelligence agents after that she had
written several letters to the education board of
the Western Azerbaijan province complaining that
students were being illegally forced to pay money to
continue their studies. Qadri, who studied
Management at the university, was taken to an
unknown prison after that she was arrested on
January 1. Shermin, who is the daughter of
Mehiedin Qaderi, is a known human rights activist
who has worked with human rights organizations.
During the past year Kurdish student activists have
been put under increasing pressure by Iran’s
intelligence agency and Shermin is the second
Kurdish female student that has been arrested during
the past couple months. Another Kurdish student by
the name of Afsane Bayzidi was arrested at the Peyam
Noor University in Bokan two months ago. 176 Kurds
have been arrested by Iran’s intelligence agency
during the past four months. pdki.org
Iran
attempts to lure Kurdish students to join the Basij
Shno: Iranian authorities are attempting to lure
Kurdish students to join its paramilitary Basij
forces by offering them financial loans with low
interest rates, Kurdpa reported. The Qarargahi
Basiji Sazendegi in the Kurdish town of Shno has
announced that all students who join the Basiji
forces will be offered financial loans with low
interest rates. The source also said that the Basij
forces are spreading information leaflets with the
offer and visiting the different schools in Shno to
lure the students to join the Basij. This action by
the Basij forces has worried the parents of the
Kurdish students in Shno. The Islamic Republic of
Iran has during a period of more than 30-years
purposely and systematically neglected Iranian
Kurdistan, refusing to invest in the region, making
it one of the most deprived and poor regions of
Iran. Unemployment rates in Iranian Kurdistan are
among the highest in the whole of Iran, forcing some
young Kurds to join the paramilitary Basij force on
promises of loans with low interest rates. A
statement issued by Basij commander to students in
the Kurdish city of Saghiz that reads; if you in the
future want to be accepted at university, you have
to fill in a form to become a member of the Basij.
kurdpa.com | pdki.org
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