Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Arrest Rauf Sheikh-Maroufi was arrested by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran on 26 December 2022, during the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government uprising in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province. He was subjected to severe torture for two days in a security detention centre in the city before being transferred to the Ministry's detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. While in the...

Mohammad Khezrnezhad holds a master's degree in Arabic Literature and has been primarily engaged in research and translation in the field of Islamic studies in recent years. Over the past 20 years, he has been forced to leave his position as an imam in various mosques in the cities of Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, and Bukan, as well as villages in the region, several times due...