Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Civil rights activists Sirous Abbasi and Azad Abbasi were arrested and subsequently sent to Qorveh Prison after being summoned to the court in Dehgolan, Kurdistan Province. The brothers had previously been sentenced by Branch Two of the Criminal Court of Dehgolan to 48 months, 18 months, and 10 months in prison on charges of “assembly and collusion against national security”, “disturbing public order” and “propaganda…

Retired Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Colonel Mohammad Mehrdadi, from Mehran in Ilam Province, was shot dead by a senior IRGC commander’s guard on 5 September while protesting outside the IRGC command headquarters in Tehran. An informed source who spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said: “Mohammad Mehrdadi had financial problems and unpaid wages from the IRGC, which led him to travel from…

Security forces raided the annual meeting of the Chya the Green Organisation in the village of Nachi in Marivan, Kurdistan Province, on 10 September, arresting at least 25 members. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that while most of those detained were released after signing written undertakings, activists Madeh Khoshnavaz, Kaveh Dastan and Kaveh Karimian remain in custody. Last night, the detainees were transferred…

Mona Aghaei, a 14-year-old girl, was killed by her brother on 24 August in Ravansar, Kermanshah province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Aghaei, a victim of forced child marriage, had been trying to get a divorce, a decision that was strongly opposed by her family. According to statistics compiled by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), there have been at least 11 documented…

Iranian Ministry of Intelligence today arrested Kurdish civil rights activist Sherko Hejazi in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province and took him to an undisclosed location. Hejazi, who is also the chairman of the football association in Saqqez, was beaten by security forces on a street close to his workplace during his arrest.

Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has sentenced Kurdish political prisoner Yousef Ahmadi to death on charges of “armed insurrection” (baghi) through membership in a Kurdish opposition party and “taking part in the murder of two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)”. At the same time, three other defendants in the case, Mohammad Karimi, Baaset Karimi and Mohammad…

Iranian security forces arrested Kurdish artist Vatan Dousti on 6 September in Dehloran, Ilam province. Details of the charges against Dousti, who is from Pahleh, Ilam Province, and the location of his detention remain unknown. According to statistics compiled by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), security forces arrested at least 60 civilians on political grounds in various cities in the provinces of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan,…

Omid Ghadimi, the brother of Foad Ghadimi, one of the victims of the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Divandarreh, Kurdistan Province, was arrested by security forces on a street in the city on 7 September and taken to an undisclosed location. In recent weeks, Omid Ghadimi has been repeatedly summoned and interrogated by the security services for his social media activities. In recent weeks, the state…

Imprisoned Kurdish rapper Saman Yasin and 12 other political prisoners have been on a hunger strike since 3 September in protest at their transfer to Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj and the harsh conditions in their ward. The 12 prisoners on hunger strike with Yasin are Saeid Masouri, Loghman Aminpour, Jafar Ebrahimi, Afshin Baymani, Sepehr Emam-Jomeh, Mohammad Shafei, Masoud Reza Ebrahiminezhad, Hamzeh Savari, Kamyar Fakour,…