Security forces with heavy weapons roam the streets of Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Iran’s Kurdistan region, in armored vehicles. They fire into the homes of terrified residents ...

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Recent reports say that Iran has dispatched masses of security forces to Sanandaj and that there are fears that people are being massacred. PROTESTERS DEMONSTRATE in front of Berlin’s ...

Riot police fired into residential neighborhoods in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province, as Amnesty International and the White House’s national security adviser criticized the ...

But it is Sanandaj, a city of 500,000 capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province, that has been the focus of protests and security forces. Videos have shown dramatic political violence in the city ...

“In Sanandaj, they shoot the people honking ... Meanwhile, the crackdown continues to intensify in various parts of Iran, most notably in the Kurdish-majority north and northwest, where ...

As protests in Iran continue into their fifth ... We have been in contact with a protester in Sanandaj - that's the capital of the Kurdistan province. We'll identify her only by the first initial ...

His family members had been arrested for protesting in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s northwestern Kurdistan province, and he hadn’t been able to reach them. “I participated in the protest ...

Human rights groups say Hayman Mostafaei, a Kurdish prisoner, was executed in the early hours of June 21 at the Sanandaj Central Prison in western Iran. The execution was reported by the human ...

Riot police fired into residential neighborhoods in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province, as Amnesty International and the White House’s national security adviser criticized the ...