Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

Arrest Pouria Javaheri was arrested after being summoned by telephone to the office of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, on 29 November 2022, during the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom. He was then transferred to the IRGC’s Shahramfar detention facility in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, where he was held for aproximately two and a half months before...