Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Arrest Kianoush Cheraghi, a former employee of the Dehloran Social Security Office, was arrested twice between 27 September and 3 October 2023 for posts on his personal Instagram page commemorating the anniversary of the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising. He was released on bail on 7 October 2023. Judicial Process In October 2023, Branch Two of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Ilam, presided over by Judge Reza...

Zhina Modares Gorji, a Kurdish journalist and prominent women’s rights activist, was repeatedly summoned and threatened by security agencies before her arrest. Arrest Modares Gorji was first beaten and arrested during the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, on 21 September 2022. After spending 40 days at the Juvenile Detention Centre of Sanandaj, she was provisionally released on 1 November 2022 on bail...

Arrest Soleyman Salek was arrested without a warrant by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the Piranshahr-Mahabad road in West Azerbaijan Province on 5 July 2022 and was transferred to the Ministry's detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. On 3 August 2022, he was transferred to Naqadeh Prison in West Azerbaijan Province and then provisionally released on 13...

In recent years, Ayoub Javanpour has worked as a labourer and kolbar. He was once injured in his leg after falling from a height during a chase by Iranian border forces on a kolbar route. Previously, in October 2017, he was arrested for participating in demonstrations supporting the Kurdish independence referendum and was later released on bail. The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, initially...

Ahmad Alizadeh is a trade union activist for teachers and a high school sports teacher in Abdanan, Ilam Province, with 29 years of experience. Arrest Alizadeh was arrested by security forces on 18 October 2022 during the anti-government protests in Abdanan and was released 15 days later on bail of 10 billion rials – nearly 20,000 USD. On 8 January 2023, he was rearrested after being summoned...

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...