Kurdish civilians Shoresh Aboubakri and Delshad Mohammadi have been temporarily released from a security detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, after being held for around three weeks. The release came after a bail of 5 billion rials (almost 10,000 USD) was posted. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the duo were arrested without warrants on 8 January during raids by security…
Read moreKurdish political activist Zhila Hojabri was recently sent to the Juvenile Detention Centre of Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, to begin serving her three year and eight month sentence. Hojabri, from Marivan, Kurdistan Province, was arrested in August 2023 by security forces in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, and after undergoing several weeks of interrogation at a security detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, she was transferred…
Read moreKurdish civilians Hassan Mardani and Loghman Pishyar have begun serving three-year prison sentences in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the individuals were detained on 30 January after they were summoned to the Enforcement of Judgements Office of Bukan Court. In December 2023, Branch 101 of the Criminal Court Two in Bukan sentenced Mardani and Pishyar to three years…
Read moreKurdish civilian Bahman Naderi was briefly detained on 28 January for his social media posts calling for a boycott of the upcoming elections in Iran. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Naderi was summoned to Branch Four of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, and charged with “propaganda against the state”. Following his arraignment, the Kurdish civilian was released…
Read moreSecurity forces arrested civilian Farough Hosseini at his family home in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, on 26 January and took him to an undisclosed location. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that security forces raided Hosseini’s home in the morning, arrested him without a warrant and confiscated several personal items without specifying the charges. Hossein is the son of Seyyed Ahmad Hosseini, the Imam…
Read moreThe fate of Kurdish civilian Shahram Ranjbar, who was arrested by security forces in a raid on his home on 22 January, remains unknown. Security forces raided Ranjbar’s home in the village of Gavmish Goli in Miandoab, West Azerbaijan Province, and arrested him without a warrant. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that despite the family’s efforts to obtain information from local authorities in…
Read moreIranian security forces have arrested at least seven people in Piranshahr, Bukan and Oshnavieh in West Azerbaijan Province and Marivan in Kurdistan Province in recent days. On 22 January, civilians Shwana Khezrnezhad, Salah Khezrnezhad and Ahad Khezrnezhad were arrested without a warrant by the Ministry of Intelligence forces during a raid on their home in the village of Gerdeh Bon in Piranshahr. On the morning of…
Read moreSecurity forces have arrested three Kurdish individuals, Rebaz Mohammadi Moghaddam, Nasser Alipour, and Rebwar Kouhgard, in the cities of Piranshahr and Bukan in West Azerbaijan Province in recent days and taken them to an undisclosed location. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that security forces arrested Moghaddam without a warrant during a raid on his home in Piranshahr on 15 January and confiscated…
Read moreSecurity forces arrested civilians Khalil Rasoulzadeh and Aziz Hal-Khali without a warrant during home raids in Naqadeh, West Azerbaijan Province, on 16 January and took them to an undisclosed location. There is no information about the charges against the two individuals or where they are being held. Rasoulzadeh is from the village of Shawleh in Naqadeh and Hal-Khali comes from the city of Naqadeh.
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