Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Sina Mohammadi, a civil rights activist and sociology student from Bolbanabad in Dehgolan County in Kurdistan Province, has been beaten and arrested by security forces and taken to an undisclosed location.  The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that security forces raided Mohammadi's home in the early hours of 18 September and arrested him without a court order.    There is no information about the...

Kurdish journalist Fardin Mostafaei, the administrator of the Telegram channel Saqqez Rudaw and a member of the International Federation of Journalists, has been arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence in the city of Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. Mostafaei's location remains unknown, and authorities have not disclosed the reasons for his arrest. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that security forces detained Mostafaei at a café...

The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Hatem Ozdemir, a Kurdish political prisoner with Turkish citizenship, on charges of "enmity against God" (moharebeh), the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Ozdemir, who was sentenced to death in May by Branch Three of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, has faced charges stemming from his involvement with the Kurdistan Workers'...

Security forces have arrested two Kurdish civilians, Aram Sadeghi and Arman Nowshadi, in the cities of Sanandaj and Divandarreh in Kurdistan Province in recent days. Nowshadi, from Divandarreh, was arrested without a warrant at his home in Divandarreh on 16 September. Sadeghi, from Sanandaj, was arrested outside his shop in Sanandaj on 10 September by agents of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

Security forces have arrested at least four more civilians in the run-up to and on the second anniversary of the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Marivan, Divandarreh, Baneh and Bukan. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Kurdish filmmaker Reza Alaei was arrested without a warrant by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in Baneh, Kurdistan Province, as he was leaving his...