Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Arrest Sina Dashmir, a Kurdish civilian from the village of Gazgasak in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, was arrested by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in the city on 18 January 2023 during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising. He was arrested without a warrant and taken to a security detention facility in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. After several weeks, he was moved from the Ministry of...

Soleiman Abdi, a Kurdish teacher and member of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union - Saqqez, has been summoned and arrested by the security services several times in recent years for his union activities.  He was previously arrested on 15 June 2022 by security forces in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, and provisionally released on bail after 10 days. Arrest Abdi was re-arrested again by the Ministry of Intelligence in Saqqez...

Arrest Sohrab Avizkan was arrested  by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on 19 November 2022 during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province. After his arrest, he was taken to the intelligence service’s detention facility in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, where he was subjected to physical and psychological torture to extract forced confessions and was later transferred...

Bapir Barzeh has been repeatedly arrested in recent years due to his political activities. In 2020, he was sentenced to two and a half years of imprisonment on charges of "membership in groups opposed to the state," and in October 2021, after serving one year, he was conditionally released from Naqadeh Prison in West Azerbaijan Province. Arrest Barzeh was arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence forces on...

Seyvan Ebrahimi is a Kurdish language teacher and a member of the board of directors of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association. Arrest Ebrahimi was initially arrested at the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, on 3 January 2023, while following up on the case of his wife, Zara Mohammadi, and was released on bail two days later. He was arrested again by security forces in Sanandaj on...