Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Arrest Haji Barzeh, a Kurdish language teacher from Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, and a member of the Bayan Kurdish Language Institute, was arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence in Piranshahr on 8 May 2024 and taken to the ministry’s detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. After initial interrogation, he was transferred to Naqadeh Prison and later provisionally released on 27 May 2024 on bail of...

Ahmad Hassanzadeh is the father of Mohammad Hassanzadeh, a protester who was killed during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province. He has been repeatedly summoned and arrested by security agencies over the past few years. Arrest Hassanzadeh was arrested by security forces on 15 September 2024, coinciding with the second anniversary of the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising, and released on bail...

Arrest Amir Baboli, a Kurdish civilian from the village of Laj in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, was arrested on 16 July 2022 when forces from Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) raided his home in the village. After his arrest, Baboli was taken to the detention facility of the military-secyrity organization in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. On 12 February 2023, after spending nearly seven...

Susan Hassanzadeh, a civil rights activist and Kurdish language teacher from Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, has 17 years of experience teaching Kurdish in Bukan and its surrounding villages. Over the years, she has been repeatedly summoned and interrogated by security forces due to her activities. Arrest Hassanzadeh was beaten and arrested by security forces on a street in the city on 15 May 2024 and was taken...

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...

Azad Abbasi, a Kurdish language teacher from Dehgolan, Kurdistan Province, and the head of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, has been repeatedly summoned and detained by security forces in recent years due to his civil rights activities. Arrest Abbasi was arrested by security forces in Dehgolan on 19 September 2023 and taken to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province.  After a few days he...

Arrest Hamid Chapati, a Kurdish civil rights activist from Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, was arrested on 16 October 2024 after being summoned by the city’s Public Security Police. The police initially raided the activist’s family home without presenting a court order and searched the property. When it was found that the activist was not at home, the public security police called him and asked him to...

Arrest Younes Mahmoudzadeh was arrested by security forces on 15 August 2022, on the Mirawa road in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, and taken to a security detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, where he was subjected to physical and psychological torture to extract forced confessions.  Ten days later, on 25 August 2022, he was transferred to Bukan Prison. During his detention, he was denied the right...

Arrest Jalal Amini was arrested by security forces on 15 August 2022, on the Mirawa road in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, and taken to a security detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, where he was subjected to physical and psychological torture to extract forced confessions.  Ten days later, on 25 August 2022, he was transferred to Bukan Prison. During his detention, he was denied the right...