Kurdish political prisoner Salah Rahmani was arrested by security forces in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, on 14 November and taken to an undisclosed location. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that at 05:00 local time on 14 November, security forces raided Rahmani’s family home in the village of Chashmiyar in Sanandaj and arrested the civilian without a judicial warrant. The charges against Rahmani and the…
Read moreAsrin Mohammadi, the sister of Shahriyar Mohammadi, a protester killed by Iranian forces during anti-government uprising of Women Life Freedom in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, was arrested by security forces on the eve of the anniversary of her brother’s killing. Security forces arrested Mohammadi without a judicial warrant at a banner printing shop in Bukan and took her to an undisclosed location. The charges against the…
Read moreKurdish labour activist Osman Esmaeili was imprisoned today to serve a 16-month sentence in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. In recent days, Esmaeili was summoned by Branch Two of the Enforcement of Judgements Office of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Saqqez to serve his sentence. Esmaeili was tried on 18 June in the first branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Saqqez, presided over by Judge…
Read moreKurdish civilian Mohammad (Soran) Moradkhani, who was arrested in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has been held in detention for 36 days with no information on his current status. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Moradkhani was arrested without a warrant by security forces on 8 October and taken to an undisclosed location. Moradkhani made a brief phone call a few days after his arrest,…
Read moreSayyad Darvishi, the brother of protester Farjad Darvishi, who was killed by Iranian forces during the anti-government uprising of Women Life Freedom in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the city almost two weeks ago. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence forces took Darvishi to one…
Read moreFour members of the Yarsan Civil Activists’ Advisory Council were arrested at a checkpoint in Dalahu, Kermanshah Province, on 10 November, and taken to an undisclosed location. The activists, Seyyed Amin Abbasi, Kheyrollah Haghjouyan, Pakzad Taheri, and Noshad Taheri, were detained at the Patagh checkpoint in Dalahu as they were returning from visiting Siavash Hayati in Qasr-e Shirin, Kermanshah Province. Hayati, a political prisoner and the…
Read morePakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish former political prisoner and social work graduate from the University of Tehran, has been held in detention for three months with no information available on her current condition. Azizi, who comes from Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, was arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence in Tehran on 4 August and transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison’, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network…
Read moreKurdish activists Ashkan Fahim, Reza Andisheh, Rizgar Rahimian, and Mohammad Marivani, who were recently transferred from the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh to Mahabad Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, are still under temporary detention and in a state of uncertainty. The four activists have been accused of “acting against national security” for their alleged membership…
Read moreThe civilians Alan Hamajani, Pourya Nasiri, Milad Morovvati and Hawre Toreh, who were detained after being summoned by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organisation in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province on 30 October, have been released. Morovvati and Toreh, both students of Kurdish language and literature at the University of Kurdistan in Sanandaj in Kurdistan Province, were released after a brief interrogation. Hamajani and Nasiri…
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