Erfan Rashidi, a prominent Environment Activist in Kermanshah Province, was released on bail. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the environment and labor Activists called as Erfan Rashid was released temporarily on July 12 after 8 days of arrest at the Intelligence Ministry’s Detention Centre (known as the oil square) in the city of Kermanshah on a bail of 50 million Tomans. At…
Read moreIn the past few days, security forces have arrested at least seven Kurdish civil and cultural activists in Kangavar, Kermanshah, and Koohdasht. There is no information available on the fate of several of them. An anonymous source, who did not want to be identified for security reasons, has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that on July 05, security forces had attacked the houses of…
Read moreDespite three days since the arrest of a poet and civil activist known as “Anwar Arab” from the city of Bukan by the security forces, no information has been received about his fate and whereabouts. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Tuesday, July 02, Bukan Intelligence Bureau officers arrested Anwar Arab at his home while inspecting the house and seizing some…
Read moreThe director of a news website, called “Nooriaw”, was arrested by the security forces of Paweh for a briefing on the order of the Pave Prosecutor’s Office and transferred to Intelligence Ministry’s Detention Centre in the city of Paweh. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Mozaffar Valadbeigi, the director of the Nooriaw News Agency, was arrested by security police and transferred…
Read moreErfan Rashidi, an Environment and labor Activists, was arrested last night by the security forces and transferred to an unknown location in Paveh. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that at 1:30 PM on July 05, security forces have raided the house of “Erfan Rashidi” (a members of the Environment association of “Zhiva” in Paveh) without a judicial order and confiscated…
Read moreFollowing the strike and protests in some parts of Iran, including Tehran capital’s Grand Bazaar, a number of the merchants in Kermanshah Bazaar have held a strike against the collapse of the Rials value on the foreign exchange market. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the majority of shopkeepers in the Kermanshah’s Arg shopping centre have joined the nationwide protests by closing…
Read moreOne of the Kurdish cyberspace activists of telegram channel, who was recently sentenced to three years imprisonment on charges of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting the leader of the Islamic Republic”, faces a new charge now. An informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that, Farrokh Abdi, a Cyberspace activist and director of telegram channel known as Amanj which covers Kurdistan news, was…
Read moreTwo Kurdish activists were sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment in total on charges of “propaganda against the regime” by Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that, on April 25, the trial of two activists known as Jafar Amini and Hamed Sepehri was held at the Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh on charges of “propaganda against the state”. Both activists, members…
Read moreThe sentence for Ibrahim Khalidi, the Kurdish student detained in Orumiyeh who was arrested during the recent protests rally and sentenced to five years imprisonment, was reduced to three years by the Orumiyeh Court of Appeals. A source close to the student told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that on Thursday, May 17, the trial of this student was held at (Branch 1) of the…
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