Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Amjad Amini, the father of Jina Mahsa Amini, has been summoned and interrogated by the Ministry of Intelligence in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, four times in the past two weeks. A relative of the Amini family revealed that the most recent summons was on 11 September, during which Mr Amini was questioned for one hour. During the interrogation, the relative told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN),…

Security forces have arrested civilians Samira Ahmadi, Esmaeil Barkhordari, Kourosh Abdi and Omid Karimi in the cities of Saqqez and Divandarreh in Kurdistan Province in recent days and taken them to undisclosed locations. This is part of a recent wave of arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists ahead of the anniversary of last year’s anti-government protests. Ahmadi was arrested today without a court warrant while driving…

Amir Kahrizi, a political asylum seeker from Kermanshah, who is currently held in a camp in Agri, eastern Turkey, went on a hunger strike on 9 September in protest at his imminent forced return to Iran. On 25 August, Kahrizi was moved from a refugee camp in Edirne, north-west Turkey, to a camp in Agri, a town on the Iranian-Turkish border. In an interview with the…

Iranian security forces have arrested at least seven Kurdish activists and civilians in the cities of Saqqez in Kurdistan Province and Bukan in West Azerbaijan Province in recent days. The names of these individuals are Hiro Ghadimi, Ahmad Moazzaz, Omid Touti, Ghader Fathollahi, Taher Soltani, Hassan Chakouch, and Hossein Chakouch. Ghadimi, a civil rights activist from Saqqez, was arrested without a warrant after security forces raided…

The situation of Keyvan Rashozadeh, a Kurdish political prisoner currently in the seventh day of his dry hunger strike in Orumiyeh Central Prison, has been described as deeply concerning. Rashozadeh began the strike on 5 September in response to being placed in solitary confinement as a result of his protest against conditions in the political prisoners’ ward. During a visit by prison officials on 5 September,…

More than 300 civilians, academic figures, civil rights activists, and political personalities have demanded the release of Saman Pashaei, former Iranian and world wrestling champion, in an open letter addressed to the Prosecutor General of the Islamic Republic Judiciary. The letter, a copy of which was sent to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), states that the signatories know Dr Pashaei, a former national sports…

The parents of Jina Mahsa Amini have announced that they will commemorate the first anniversary of their daughter’s death at her grave in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. In a statement posted on the Instagram account of Jina Mahsa Amini’s father, Amjad Amini, Mojgan Eftakhari and Amjad Amini addressed their “esteemed compatriots” and “dear sisters and brothers” to announce the details of the event. The Amini family said…

The Ministry of Intelligence in Shahriar, Tehran Province, summoned four family members of Erfan Khazaei, one of the victims of last year’s anti-government protests, by telephone on 9 September. Erfan Khazaei, from Kangavar, Kermanshah Province, who lived in Shahriar, was shot dead by the military-security forces during the anti-government protests in Shahriar on 21 September 2022. In recent weeks, the state security and judicial institutions have…

Mahya Naderi, a 14-year-old girl, was shot dead by her cousin with a hunting rifle in Sarpol-e Zahab, Kermanshah province. According to reports, the incident took place with the knowledge of Mahya’s father and was allegedly linked to her “romantic involvement with a boy and running away from home”. Nadari’s body was buried in Sarpol-e Zahab on 8 September. According to statistics compiled by the Kurdistan Human…