Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Parvin Adwai, a civil rights activist and former political prisoner from Marivan, Kurdistan Province, has been active in women’s rights, child protection, and environmental advocacy in Marivan in recent years. She also played a key role in pursuing justice in a case of child sexual abuse in the village of Selin, in the Hawraman region. Arrest Adwai was arrested on 20 January 2025 after receiving a telephone...

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...

Pakhshan Azizi, a graduate in social work from Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran, has a history of previous arrests by security forces. She was first detained on 16 November 2009 during a protest gathering of Kurdish students at Tehran University against political executions in Kurdistan. She was released on bail after four months of detention and eventually left Iran, residing in the Kurdistan Region of...

Hajar Saeidi, a long-standing activist for women's and workers' rights, has been summoned, arrested, and sentenced several times due to her activities. In August 2020, Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, sentenced her to five years in prison, suspended for four years, on charges of "acting against national security" through membership in the Communist Party of Iran (Komala), as well...