(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 ...
DUHOK, Kurdistan Region (K24) – On Monday, senior Peshmerga officials said a group of Syrian Kurdish women from Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) have recently joined its forces fighting against the Islamic ...
two ethnic Kurdish women. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported the detention of six citizens in Sanaa, while three others were arrested in Saqiz and Sardasht by the Ministry of ...
Under rules imposed after the 1979 Islamic revolution, women must cover their hair and neck and wear loose-fitting clothes in public. They are also not allowed to dance in public places.
With the exiled Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani in the role of Bahar, commander of a Kurdish unit battling Daesh, “Girls of the Sun” is a paean to the courage and never-say-die attitude of ...
That is of great concern to singer Isiah Mentor. His latest song, Dance With Women Again, longs for the good old days when partners flocked the dance floor. He produced the track for his Village ...
Iraqi authorities are working to exhume the remains of around 100 Kurdish women and children thought to have been killed in the 1980s under former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein, three officials said. The ...
The decision was upheld on January 8, 2025, by the Iranian Supreme Court. Kurdish women activists also expressed their condemnation of Azizi’s sentence. During a protest in front of the Kurdistan ...
Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. On January 8, 2025, the Iranian Supreme Court upheld the death ...