Armed insurrection (baghi) Archives - KHRN
Hamid Hoseinnezhad Heidaranlou
Hamid Hoseinnezhad Heidaranlou, born in 1985 and the father of three children from the village of Segrik in Chaldoran, West Azerbaijan Province, had worked as a fuel porter and border trader in recent years. Arrest Hosseinnezhad Heidaranlou was arrested by border guards at the Chaldoran border along with several Afghan nationals on 13 April 2023 and taken to the Chaldoran Border Guards Detention Centre, where he...
Read moreShaker Behrouz
Shaker Behrouz left the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) in autumn 2018 after being a member for a few months, and returned from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to Iran after receiving a "safe conduct" letter. Upon appearing at the Ministry of Intelligence Office in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, he was detained and held for two weeks for interrogation before being released. In December of...
Read morePezhman Soltani
Arrest Pezhman Soltani was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on 15 April 2023, along with several other civilians, during the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government uprising in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province. After his arrest, he was taken to the security service's detention facility in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. Soltani was held in solitary confinement for several months without the right to...
Read moreAli Ghassemi
Arrest Ali Ghassemi (Soran Ghassemi) was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on 15 April 2023, along with several other civilians, during the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government uprising in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province. After his arrest, he was taken to the security service's detention facility in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. Ghassemi was held in solitary confinement for several months without the...
Read moreJavanmard Mam-Khosravi
Arrest Javanmard Mam-Khosravi was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on 26 April 2023, along with several other civilians, during the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government uprising in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province. After his arrest, he was taken to the security service's detention facility in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. Mam-Khosravi was held in solitary confinement for several months without the right to...
Read moreHossein Khosravi
Hossein Khosravi has served as an Imam in mosques in the cities of Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, and Baneh, Kurdistan Province, for many years. Arrest Khosravi was beaten and arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence on 29 January 2024, along with Soleyman Adhami, a Sunni Kurdish cleric, and Hiwa Nouri, a Sunni Kurdish activist, in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, and taken to the Ministry's detention facility...
Read moreSoleyman Adhami
Soleyman Adhami has served for years as the prayer leader in mosques in the villages of Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, and Baneh, Kurdistan Province. Arrest Adhami was beaten and arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence on 29 January 2024, along with Hossein Khosravi, a Sunni Kurdish cleric, and Hiwa Nouri, a Sunni Kurdish activist, in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, and taken to the Ministry's detention facility...
Read moreHiwa Nouri
Arrest Hiwa Nouri was beaten and arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence on 29 January 2024, along with two other Kurdish Sunni clerics, Hossein Khosravi and Soleyman Adhami, in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, and taken to the Ministry's detention facility in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. He was detained for over three months without being allowed to meet his family or have access to a lawyer. During this...
Read moreVerisheh Moradi
Verisheh Moradi (Wirishe Moradi), a graduate in biology, spent several years working as a sports coach for underprivileged children and as a civil rights activist focused on women's and student issues in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. In 2010, she moved to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where she continued her activities by joining the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR). She participated in the fight against the...
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