Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Teachers have staged sit-ins at schools across Kurdistan on March 3, 4 and 5 following the protests of the teachers and call of Coordinating Council of Teachers Syndicates in Iran (CCTSI). In a conversation with KHRN, one of the teachers participating in this sit-in has reported massive participation of teachers in various cities of Kurdistan and said that the sit-ins…

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Mokhtar Zarei, a Kurdish Civil Rights activist, has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment on charges of participation in protest gathering and conspiracy against national security by the Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj. According to reports received by KHRN, Mokhtar Zaraei was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in absentia on March 03 per Article 610…

Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN): Salahedin Ranjbar, director of the Telegram channel “Orumiyeh Dang” who had been previously transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison to serve his one year sentence, has been released. According to reports received by KHRN, this political prisoner was released following the leniency shown by Iran Judiciary on the release of political prisoners who have been imprisoned for less than a year. Salahedin…

In recent weeks, a large number of civil, political, labour, and women activists in Sanandaj, including Simin Chaichi- poet and women’s rights activist- Seyyed Khaled Hosseini and Mozafar Salehania- labour activists and members of the Coordinating Committee for the creation of labour organisations- have been summoned and interrogated by the security agencies affiliated with the Intelligence Ministry, IRGC and the Law Enforcement Force. According to…

Kurdistan Human Rights Network(KHRN): A young Kurdish singer ‘Peyman Mirzazadeh’, who was sentenced to six months of imprisonment last year on charges of propaganda against the state due to singing Kurdish revolutionary songs, was arrested by security forces in Orumiyeh once again over the past few days. A source close to the family of this singer confirmed the news of this arrest and told Kurdistan…

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Families of recently arrested activists of Sanandaj, Kamyaran and Marivan held a protest gathering in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) building in Sanandaj on Saturday morning February 24 and called for the immediate release of these people. “This gathering was led by a group of women from the families of the detainees. The crowd demanded the authorities…

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Following further arrests of Members of the Kurdistan Branch of the National Unity Party, two other members of the party including Farzad Hosseini and Pouria Ahmadi were arrested in Kamyaran and Sanandaj. According to reports received by KHRN, security guards affiliated with the Intelligence Ministry arrested Pouya Ahmadi, the head of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party and…

Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN): Three Kurdish political prisoners Ali Ahmad Suleiman, Yousef Kakamaemi and Aydin Ozchlik went on a one-day hunger strike at Tabriz Central Prison in protest to the Lack of Availability of Education in Mother Language for Kurdish children in Iran. This hunger strike was carried out simultaneously with the International Mother Language Day on February 21. “Article 15 of the Iranian…

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): On Sunday, February 17, Afshin Sheikholeslami Vatani was arrested by security forces at his family home in Sanandaj. His sister, Negin Sheikholeslami Vatani, has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network that “Five Iranian security agents entered our family house with a court order to arrest my brother. After searching our house, they arrested him but we are still uncertain to [which…