Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Azhdar Piri is a Kurdish journalist from Chaldoran, West Azerbaijan Province, and the editor-in-chief of the international monthly Pazhouhesh-e Melal (Nations Research). Arrest Piri, originally from Chaldoran, West Azerbaijan Province, and currently based in Karaj, was arrested at his home on 21 October 2024 by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and detained for 21 days at the Ministry’s detention facility in Karaj, where he was...

Arrest Sirvan Parvizi, a Kurdish blogger and satirist from Ilam, Ilam Province, was arrested on 5 January by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) at his family home in Ilam over his management of a public Instagram account where he created and shared satirical videos addressing the country’s political, social, and economic conditions. After his arrest, Parvizi was taken to the detention...

Zhina Modares Gorji, a Kurdish journalist and prominent women’s rights activist, was repeatedly summoned and threatened by security agencies before her arrest. Arrest Modares Gorji was first beaten and arrested during the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, on 21 September 2022. After spending 40 days at the Juvenile Detention Centre of Sanandaj, she was provisionally released on 1 November 2022 on bail...

Fardin Mostafaei, the administrator of the Telegram channel Saqqez Rudaw and a member of the International Federation of Journalists, was previously summoned in November 2023 along with Nasser Karimi, the administrator of another Telegram channel Dangi Shar, to the Cyber Police in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, following a complaint filed by the city’s governor.   Both were interrogated over allegations of “spreading falsehoods and disturbing public mind”.  Arrest  Mostafaei was arrested by...