Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian security forces and riot police have been widely deployed to Saqqez, Bukan, Marivan, Sanandaj, Javanrood, Kermanshah, and Ilam on the 40th day of the nationwide killing of protesters on 16 November, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).   Some of these cities are only witnessing the special forces of the police. However, in cities such as Marivan, Kermanshah, and Javanrood, both the police…

The Iranian security forces arrested two cultural activists in Kermanshah, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).  Fouad Mozaffari, a poet, and Farzad Safareh, a writer, were detained on 18 December by security forces in their family homes. The reason for the arrest of these two Kurdish activists and the charges against them remain unclear who were also arrested earlier in September 2018 for organising a rally in…

Kurdish civil society and environmental activist Simko Maroufi from Bukan was sentenced to two years in prison on charges of “disturbing public order” by participating in a rally condemning the Turkish army’s attack on the Kurdish-led Democratic Autonomous Administration in the north and east of Syria, known as Rojava. The hearing of the charges against Simko Maroufi was held at Branch 4 of the Bukan…

Kurdish Journalist Homayoun Abbasi was arrested by security forces in Tehran on 17 December. Homayoun Abbasi, born in Islamabad in the west of Kermanshah province, is the editor of the cultural and political monthly Jilwan which has been published in both Kurdish and Persian languages in Tehran and the Kurdish regions of Iran for the past five years. Charges against Abbasi are yet to be…

The security forces in Kermanshah, Javanrood, Ravansar, and Marivan have visited a number of families of those killed in the November protests offering registering their dead beloved ones as martyrs of the Islamic Republic, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). According to statistics compiled by KHRN, at least 24 Kurdish civilians have so far been confirmed dead in the cities of Javanrood, Kermanshah,…

Three Kurdish civilians Saed Banafshi, Ibrahim Hossein Nejad and Nafeh Minayi  detained during the November protests in the cities of Sanandaj and Saqqez were released on bail on 12 December, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Ibrahim Hossein Nejad and Nafeh Minayi arrested during the recent protests in the city of Saqqez, were released on 10 December after completing their interrogation on…

Azeri social media activist Hossein Habibvand detained during the November protests in Orumiyeh was released from Orumiyeh Central Prison on 10 December on a bail of 50 million tomans, a source told the Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN). Hossein Habibvand was transferred to the Orumiyeh prison after several days of interrogation at the detention centre of one of the Orumiyeh Intelligence Bureau offices. During the past few days,…

Two of the detainees of the November protests in Orumiyeh, Parviz Naseri and Mansour Zinalali Zadeh, were transferred to the central prison of the city, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Parviz Naseri, a resident of the Islamabad neighborhood of Orumiyeh, was arrested by the Intelligence Service agents about nine days ago upon a temporary arrest warrant issued by a prosecutor. Mansour Zeinali Zadeh, Another civilian of…

Mojgan Kavoosi, a Kurdish writer and cultural activist of Kelardasht, remains detained for further interrogation following a temporary arrest warrant issued by the Intelligence Unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Sari, a local source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Kavoosi was arrested on 18 November by the Intelligence Department of IRGC at her home in Noshahr of Mazandaran Province. Ever since, she…