The Iranian security forces shot dead a Kurdish woman while she was watching the protests on the top of her apartment along with her neighbors. Mina Sheikhi, born in 1960 and a single mother of six children from Saqqez who was residing in Tehran, was shot dead by the Iranian security forces on the roof of her apartment in…
Read moreLabour activist Jalil Mohammadi, a member of the Coordination Committee for the Establishment of Workers’ Organizations, was arrested by security forces on 3 December, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Mohammadi was arrested at his workplace in Sanandaj and taken to an unknown location. No information has been released concerning the whereabouts of the activist. Mohammadi has also been summoned and detained many times over the past few years…
Read moreRashid Naserzadeh, director of the “Shno 24” Telegram Channel and environmental activist, was arrested in his way back from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq between Piranshahr and Oshnavieh (Shno in Kurdish) by the security forces on 3 December and taken to an unknown location, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Nasserzadeh had previously been summoned and interrogated by security agencies for his activities. The “Shno 24” Telegram Channel…
Read moreAbout 100 detainees have been transferred from the Kermanshah Security Detention Facility to Dizel Abad Prison during the past two days and about 100 other civilians are still held in the detention facilities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Intelligence Service, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). According to reports from Kermanshah, protesters are being held in groups of 5-10 in…
Read moreA civilian detainee was released on bail after being interrogated at a security detention centre in Marivan for 12 days, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). 24-year-old civilian Shirzad Adwai, a resident of Mariwan, was arrested on 19 November after being summoned to the Intelligence Department of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) of Sarvabad and transferred to one of the Marivan…
Read moreThe Iranian intelligence offices have summoned more than 100 activists in the cities of Javanrud, Ravansar, Kermanshah, Kamyaran, Marivan, Saqqez and Sanandaj, local soruces told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). As per the sources, the activists, some of whom are former Kurdish political prisoners, were summoned by telephone and interrogated mainly in connection with recent protests in Iran. The security investigators have threatened these activists not…
Read moreKurdish civil rights activist Anwar Hossein Panahi was summoned to Sanandaj Intelligence Bureau where he was questioned for two hours on 2 December, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Hossein Panahi was summoned to the Sanandaj Intelligence Agency while he is based in Tehran. Panahi was arrested in 2007 by the Iranian security forces and held for six months at the Qorveh Intelligence Office. He was…
Read moreThe Iranian security forces have put detained students under severe physical and psychological torture in solitary confinement, confirmed a civilian recently released from the custody. Local Sources in Marivan reported continuing detention and torture of civilians at the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Marivan. “Security forces raided Shariati Mariwan High School in the past days and arrested two students,” a source told KHRN. The security forces had refused to…
Read moreThe Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) was able to identify three other civilians killed in the recent protests in the Dolatabad neighborhood of Kermanshah as Younes Jalili, Saeed Rezai and Mozafar Vatan Dost. These civilians were killed during a protest rally in Kermanshah on 16 and 17 November by direct firing of the Iranian security forces. The families of these civilians paid the government about 50…
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