On Sunday, July 21, 2019, a group of Earthquake Stricken people held a protest gathering at the entrance and outskirts of the city of Sarpol-e Zahab in response to water and electricity disconnection. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed by sources in Sarpol-e Zahab that this gatherings, held in both the afternoon and midnight, led to violence after the police forces intervened. Another…
Read moreFive Kurdish activists were arrested in Marivan and surrounding villages transferred to an unknown location by security forces affiliated with the Marivan intelligence Office and . A reliable source from Marivan has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the ministry of intelligence in Marivan had summoned four activists- Ali Rezaei and Omid Salehi, from the village of Gouzak Kavir, Fateh Hoshmand from the village…
Read moreFarhad Mohammadi, a lawyer and secretary of the National Unity Party in Kurdistan, was released on bail. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that this lawyer was released from Sanandaj Central Prison at noon on Tuesday, July 9, 2019 after a 6-month detention on a heavy bail of 500 million Tomans. This activist was arrested on Jan 4, 2019 following the massive arrest of…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Hossein Kamangar, the Kurdish activist who has been detained since Jan 7, 2019, has not been in contact with his family since February. “ He contacted his family on Feb 6, 2019 but he has not had any contact with them since then. Security interrogators have announced that he would be deprived of the right to visit his family until…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Two Kurdish detainees known as Farzad Hosseini and Mehdi Ghobadi have been released from the Kamyaran Prison on heavy bail over the past few days. KHRN has been informed that Farzad Hosseini, a member of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party, was released on a bail of one billion Tomans. He was detained by security forces in Kamyaran…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Idris Menbari and Rebvar Menbari, members of the Nozhin cultural-social association, were released after being released for four days. Zahra Mohammadi, another member of the association, is still in detention. A reliable source told KHRN that police force forces had stormed into the homes of Rebvar Menbari Idris Menbari & Zahra Mohammadi on May 23, 2019 and arrested them. According to…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A group of civil activists were arrested in Marivan by law enforcement forces following a peaceful protest to end violence against women on May 16, 2019. “The violence against women has been intensified recently, they are either killed by their relatives or by unknown people. For hundreds of years, women have fallen victim to male-dominated cultures and they are being…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A worker, ‘Isaac Rouhi” was returned to the Sanandaj Central Prison quarantine due to his inability to secure his 500 million Tomans bail. “On May 1, 2019, Isaac Rouhi was arrested by security forces when he intended to accompany his family to the International Labour Day at Naysar town in Sanandaj. The agents then took the family back to their…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Pouria Ahmadi, the head of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party and a member of the Central Council of Sanandaj, was arrested when presenting himself at the Sanandaj Intelligence Office following a summons and then he was transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in this city. KHRN has obtained information that this activist was telephone summoned…
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