Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

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...

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...

Arrest Kamran Soltani was arrested by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran on 27 February 2023, during the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government uprising in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, and taken to the Ministry's detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. While in the detention centre, he was held in solitary confinement and subjected to torture in order to extract forced...

Zeynab Jalalian moved to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq with one of her sisters in 1999. She initially joined the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and in 2003, after the establishment of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), became a member of its women’s branch. She is Iran's longest-serving and only female political prisoner serving a life sentence. Throughout her imprisonment, Jalalian has been denied the right to...

Towhid Darvish (Loghman Darvish) is a father of two and comes from the village of Garnavik in Khoy, West Azerbaijan province. Following an earthquake in March 2020, his family settled in the city of Khoy after their village home was destroyed in the quake. Arrest Darvish was arrested by security forces in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, during the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom on 29...

Shaker Baghi is a Kurdish civilian from Van in the Kurdistan of Turkey who holds Turkish citizenship. Arrest Baghi was arrested on 10 March 2008 on the Sanandaj-Marivan road in Kurdistan Province by the forces of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was beaten by security officers during his arrest, to the extent that he fell unconscious due to multiple blows to...

Arrest Ahmadian was arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, on 5 October 2010. He was held in solitary confinement for 230 days in security detention centres in Sardasht, Saqqez, and Sanandaj, where he endured severe interrogation and torture. His family had no information about his whereabouts and condition for a long time, and initially, the Ministry...

On 22 September 2010, a bomb explosion during a military parade in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, resulted in the deaths of 12 people and injured 40 others. Following the explosion, military and security organisations provided conflicting statements regarding the identity and fate of those responsible for the bombing. On 26 September 2010, Mohammad Pakpour, then-commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Ground Forces, announced that...