Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Security forces today arrested Khaled Ahmadi, a retired teacher and a member of the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union Association, without a warrant during a raid on his home in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Ahmadi's arrest took place while he was scheduled to moderate an online session for the election of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union's executive committee. Details of the...

Mostafa Hamdi, a media activist and administrator of the Porseman Telegram group who was arrested on 7 April in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, has been held in detention for three weeks without the right to access legal counsel or family visits. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that after his arrest, Hamdi was taken to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Sanandaj, Kurdistan...

Retired Kurdish teacher and civil rights activist Salman Olfati has been on a hunger strike since 24 April in protest at his detention by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. Olfati, 60, was arrested on 12 April by the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC in Gilan-e Gharb, Kermanshah Province, and taken to the military-security organisation's detention facility...

Kurdish political prisoner Keyvan Rashozadeh has entered the 12th day of a hunger strike in Orumiyeh Central Prison, in West Azerbaijan Province, raising concerns over his deteriorating physical condition, according to his mother, Nazdar Roudsaz. In a video message, Roudsaz revealed that her son had been subjected to torture in recent days, including beatings by prison guards after his hands and feet were tied. Rashouzadeh was...

Osman Esmaeili, a 64-year-old Kurdish labour activist, is being denied access to specialised medical care and leave due to opposition from the Ministry of Intelligence, raising concerns over his deteriorating health. Esmaeili, who has been imprisoned since November 2023, suffers from a number of health problems, including a hernia and spinal stenosis. A doctor accredited by the Iranian Legal Medicine Organisation in Kurdistan Province has warned...