On March 18, 2018, during the football match between Sardar Bukan and Bandar Abbas municipality at Khatam al-Anbiya Stadium in Bukan, one of the football fans entered the football pitch and the audience also shouted slogans against Turkish Attack on Kurds in Afrin. Consequently, the security forces attacked protesters with tear gas and batons. This incident led to the injury of a number of…
Read moreFollowing the protests against the Turkish military attack, security forces have arrested two other Kurdish citizens in Bukan during the past days. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that during the protest rally in a number of cities in Kurdistan against the Turkish military attack on Monday of March 12, 2018, security forces arrested two other Kurdish citizens, called Jafar Amini and Hamid…
Read moreOn Thursday, March 15, 2018, one of the detainees arrested during the protest rally in condemnation of the Turkish military Attack on Kurds in Afrin in Kamyaran was released. But there is still no information available on the fate of other detainees. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on March 12, 2018, security forces arrested at least 8 civil activists in Kamyaran…
Read moreFollowing the protest rally against the Turkish military attack, A group of civil activists have been arrested in a number of cities in Kurdistan such as Marivan and Kamyaran. Nine of the detainees have been released on bail but there is no information available on the fate of others. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Monday evening of March 12, 2018,…
Read moreYesterday afternoon, on March 12, following the call on social networks on holding a protest rally in condemnation of the Turkish military Attack on Kurds in Afrin and the silence of the international community, several cities witnessed the rally despite the presence of security forces. Several numbers of Civil activists have been arrested by security forces in Marivan and Kamyaran. Various sources in the cities…
Read moreOne of the Kurdish cyberspace activists of telegram channel called “Amanj” was transferred to the Orumiyeh Central Prison after a month of detention by security forces. “Farrokh Abdi, a Cyberspace activist and director of telegram channel known as Amanj which covers Kurdistan news, was arrested by security forces about a month ago in Qeshm.” an informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). According to this…
Read moreThe court hearing of Kurdish activist known as Najibeh Salehzadeh was held at the Revolutionary Court of Saqqez. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Tuesday, March 06, the hearing for Najibeh Salehzadeh’s was held at the Revolutionary Court of Saqqez (Branch 1) on charges of propaganda against the system through interviews with foreign media abroad. “If defending my husband (Mahmoud Salehi) is…
Read moreOn Monday, March 05, five civil activists including a Kurdish singer were interrogated at the Interrogation Department of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj (Branch 4) on charges of propaganda against the regime through the celebration of the Newroz last year. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that five labour activists in Sanandaj, called Muzaffar Salehnia, Sharif Sa’edpanah, Khaled Hosseini, Ghaleb Hosseini and…
Read moreA Kurdish student from Sardasht, arrested during a protests rally in Orumiyeh, was sentenced to five years of imprisonment on charges of acting against national security. Kurdistan Human Rights Network has been informed that on January 26, Ibrahim Khalidi, a Kurdish student, was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of “acting against national security through participation in Orumiyeh protests by the Orumiyeh Revolutionary…
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