Founded in 1997 by Michael Sears and Hushidar “Hushi” Mortezaie, the revolutionary fashion label Michael and Hushi, ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Amnesty International on Monday called on Iran to “immediately” release Kurdish humanitarian aid worker Pakhshan Azizi and call off her execution, saying she was ...

(Beirut) – Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. “Iranian authorities are using the death ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian Kurdish opposition groups called for a general strike in the western Kurdish areas (Rojhelat) on Wednesday to condemn the Islamic republic's death sentences for ...

ALBAWABA - In a horrifying incident that set the internet ablaze, a Kurdish woman who miraculously escaped prison in Iran's Kurdistan claims to have been brutally tortured and gang-raped by ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Businesses in several Kurdish cities in Iran went on strike Wednesday after Kurdish groups called for a protest against the death sentences of two female political prisoners. Six Kurdish groups ...

from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish ethnic minority, Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: “The international community must immediately urge ...

Join us for the launch of Marouf Cabi's latest book Iranian Kurdistan Under the Islamic Republic: Change, Revolution, and Resistance published by I.B. Tauris. Cabi presents a social, political, ...

Mr. Mustafa is a senior researcher whose main areas of specialization include Kurdish, Iranian, and Turkish studies with a special focus on Kurdish history in Late Antiquity. In his writings ...

Iran has given temporary reprieve from execution to Kurdish activist Pakhshan Azizi, but the uncertainty has only increased the agony of her family, rights activists said. Ms Azizi, 40 ...