Kurdish organizations have boycotted the elections

Kordpa News Agency wrote in its website that majority of the political organizations in the Iranian Kurdistan are boycotting the elections and have asked the people not to show up at the ballot boxes.

Syrian political prisoner on hunger strike in Iran

Ramadan Ahmed Kamal, a political prisoner from the city of Kubani in Syria, held in Iran

Ramadan Ahmed Kamal, a political prisoner from Syrian detained in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Iran, is on hunger strike protesting authorities’ refusal to provide him any medical care.

It is worth noting that this political prisoner is from the city of Kubani in Syria. Back in 2008 he had mistakenly entered Iran with three Kurdistan Workers Party members and was arrested by Iranian border guards.

Iran: Kurdistan people boycott regime’s Feb. 11 ceremony

On Thursday, February 11^th marking 37^th anniversary of the 1979 revolution in Iran that toppled the Shah’s regime. Prior to this day regime officials, Friday prayer imams and especially Revolutionary Guards commanders in Kurdistan had in the past few weeks resorted to ridiculous remarks describing this year’s anniversary as “epic” and … inviting the people of Kurdistan to take part in the government ceremonies.