Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

Matin Hassani, a protester from Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, was injured in his left eye by gunfire from Iranian military-security forces during anti-government protests in the city on 16 November 2019.  Despite the passage of several years, a pellet remains lodged in his left eye due to the impact of a pellet on the optic nerve and the risks associated with surgery. In December 2019, while...

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...

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, on 16 November 2022.  His family members have been summoned and arrested several times by the security services over the past two years.  Arrest  Hassanzadeh was arrested by security forces on a street in Bukan on 15 September 2024.  Defendant’s Rights  He was arrested without...

Foad Fathi (Sirous Fathi) has been summoned and arrested several times for his labour and trade union activities. Arrest Fathi was arrested by security forces in Tehran on 4 November 2023 and was taken to Evin Prison in Tehran Judicial Process After being formally charged by Branch Seven of the Evin Prosecutor's Office, Fathi's trial was held on 1 December 2024 at Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary...

Arrest Zhila Hojabri was arrested by security forces in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, in August 2022. After being held for several weeks in a security detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, she was transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison. A month later, she was moved to the women's ward of the Juvenile Detention Centre of Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, and was interrogated daily for several months at...

Sakineh Parvaneh, a former political prisoner, was first arrested in the autumn of 2019 while residing in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. During a security operation, she was detained by agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the Iranian consulate in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, during a visit with her family. She was then transferred to Iran, spending 10 days in detention centres in Marivan and...

Mashallah Karami is the father of Mohammad Mehdi Karami, a Kurdish political prisoner who was executed during the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom. Mohammad Mehdi Karami, a Kurdish protester from Bijar, Kurdistan Province, was arrested during the Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Karaj, Alborz Province, and sentenced to death in the case of the "murder of Basij member Rouhollah Ajamian". Karami and his co-defendant...