The prosecutor of Branch 1 of Iran’s Evin Court has extended the detention of British anthropologist Kameel Ahmady for another month, his wife told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Ahmady, a British citizen of Iranian Kurdish origin, has been in custody since 11 August. “On 11 September, I [was] referred to Shahid Moqadas Prosecutor’s Office (Evin Branch). I hoped a bail order would be issued for my husband. However,…
Read moreFour Kurdish civilians known as “Parviz Nouri”, “Farhad Nouri”, “Safar Nouri” and “Ali Azizi” detained by the Orumiyeh Intelligence Service in late August, were transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that these four civilians of the village of Anabe in Orumiyeh were arrested by the forces of the Orumiyeh Intelligence Service on Aug 15, 2019 and taken to the…
Read moreTwo Kurdish activists have been released on bail on the afternoon of10 September while another two activists from Kamyaran were transferred to Kamyaran Prison following a change of their arrest warrants to prison sentences. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Akbar Goyli and Arman Qeitasi were released on bail, and that both were transferred from the Ministry of Intelligence’s Detention Centre in Sanandaj…
Read moreAli Saeedi, a Kurdish detainee from Orumiyeh who was arrested by security forces on Aug 11, 2019, has been released from Orumiyeh Central Prison on bail. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that Ali Saeedi was released on bail on Sunday, Sept 8, 2019 on a bail of 300 million tomans. He was arrested by security forces in the village of…
Read moreTawfiq Sarafraz, director of the Sanandaj Cemetery Organization (Known as Aramestan) who has been in police custody for about three weeks, suffered a cardiac attack at the detention centre. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that he was taken to Tohid Hospital in Sanandaj after a heart attack and he is currently in the intensive care unit (ICU). Tawfiq Sarafraz, who was a member of…
Read moreThe Iranian Ministry of Intelligence has arrested “more than 40 Kurdish activists and civilians” in the cities of Sanandaj, Kamyaran, Marivan, Saqqez, Baneh and Divandarah over the past months for “political and religious activities,” local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The KHRN has learned that detainees are all currently held at the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre “undergoing interrogation and pressure.” The KHRN…
Read moreIran Rahpeykar, an activist from Mariwan who was arrested by security forces in Sanandaj on May 14, 2019, has been sentenced to 3 years in prison on charges of “acting against national security” due to collaboration with one of the Kurdish opposition parties. Vali Nasri, a civilian from Sanandaj who was arrested in March and released on a bail after 10 days, was also sentenced…
Read moreTwo labour activists, “Seyed Ali Hosseini” and “Kamran Sakhtemangar”, were arrested by security forces in Saqqez and transferred to the Sanandaj Intelligence Bureau on Sept 4, 2019. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that security forces detained Sayed Ali Hosseini in his private garden near the village of Saqqez, along with another labour activist known as Kamran Sakhtemangar, on September 4. The two activists…
Read moreDuring the past week, four Kurdish civilians have been detained by security forces in the cities of Paveh, Marivan and Oshnavieh (Shno in Kurdish) without an arrest warrant. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that security forces have arrested a Kurdish student “Karo Kawe” while farming in the village of Ney in Marivan and another civilian “Sina Jast” from the village of Ney…
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