The statement issued by the Human Rights Commission of the East Azerbaijan Bar Association, written in a securitized and racist language against the Kurdish nation and Kolbars, not only bears no trace of human rights but openly reflects the logic of fascism, class oppression, and national suppression in Iran. In […]
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Writer: Roman Miraki “Women, Life, Freedom” movement, led by women, broke down walls of gender, religious, and ethnic discrimination and created a discourse for justice.Three years ago, on September 15, 2022, state sponsored murder of Jina Amini sparked what became one of largest protest movements in contemporary Iranian history. “Women, […]
Writer: Roman Miraki This report presents several true stories from women Kolbars from five Kurdish regions of Iran, whose lives were examined in an ethnographic study.“One of the women Kolbars I spoke to was 47 years old, both she and her husband were Kolbars, and she had broken her leg […]
Writer; Roman Miraki The Iranian Kurdistan may be the only region where the term Kolbari is common. Although Kolbari is very dangerous and all Kolbars are expected to die, women also participate in Kolbari.For ten years, the Iranian regime has imposed a series of policies on the people in order […]
Following the Israeli government’s military assault on Iran, the region once again finds itself on the brink of an even deeper crisis. Two reactionary and repressive regimes “the Islamic Republic of Iran and the State of Israel” are locked in a deadly competition for regional hegemony, turning the lives and […]
May 1st, International Workers’ Day, is not merely a symbolic date, it is a moment to echo the accumulated rage and silenced struggles of the oppressed, whose voices are heard not through official media, but in the reverberation of bullets and the wreckage left by bourgeois civilization. Under the rule […]
Writer; Roman Miraki Jalil Mohammadi, is one of most well-known activists in labor movement in Kurdistan. On Wednesday, 7 January 2011, agents from Intelligence Ministry raided home of this labor activist and searched his home under pretext that he and several other workers were trying to establish labor organizations in […]
Five years ago, on December 20, 2019, after four relentless days of searching by the people of Hawraman and Marivan, along with civil and social organizations and mountaineering groups, the frozen body of 14-year-old child Kolbar Farhad Khosravi was found in the heights of Tehteh in Hawraman. This occurred three […]
Writer; Roman Mireki Rafiq Salimi, is a labor activist living in Sanandaj. He was arrested at same time as nationwide uprising in Iran in response to murder of Jina Amini and was sentenced to long term imprisonment on charges of war.On 26/11/2022, Fwad Salimi and Rafiq Salimi were arrested by […]
Author: Roman Mireki Mahmoud Salehi, a prominent Kurdish labor activist, has been a key figure in the Iranian labor movement since the 1978 revolution. Despite facing numerous arrests and severe health issues due to his activism, Salehi continues to fight for labor rights. His experiences highlight the harsh conditions and […]