Benita Kiani Flavarjani was playing with her cousin in their grandfather’s home in the central Iranian city of Isfahan when they heard the sound of gunfire. Curious to know what was happening outside, the two kids went to the balcony, where Benita’s head was hit by some 20 metal pellets fired by police. Now, the 5 ½-year-old girl “has to …
Over many months of protests, Iranian demonstrators have been assaulted, arrested, and, in some cases, have lost their lives. Violent crowd control methods have been reported since protests began in September 2022, including the firing of metal pellets, an indiscriminate and brutal practice that does not just injure; it maims. Read the full report here.
Over a month after the earthquake and despite freezing weather, homeless victims of the November earthquake have to spend winter in tents.
Join us for a night of music and fundraising at London’s Ealing Town Hall. All proceeds will go to the reconstruction of the Kermanshah earthquake region. please share the link and ask your friends in London to join us. Time: Saturday Dec. 9th From 7-9 Place: Ealing Town Hall, New Broadway, W5 2BY Ticket: £20.00 Tickets are availabe by donating …
Aljezeera’s report on the earthquake Death toll The majority of victims were Iranian. IRNA, the country’s state news service, said on Tuesday that at least 530 people were killed and 7,817 were injured. Officials in Kermanshah said most of the Iranian deaths were in the town of Sarpol-e Zahab where 236 people died. At least 10 people killed in Iraq. …
The Kurdish Aid Foundation (KAF) is a small UK registered charity, which was set up in 1991 as a medical and dental appeal, as a consequence of Saddam’s atrocities in Southern (Iraqi) Kurdistan. It has helped displaced and injured people in that part of Kurdistan since the 1990’s. In 1994, it was registered in the UK as the Kurdish Aid Foundation …
