Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has summoned 14 Kurdish teacher activists for questioning as the second anniversary of the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising approaches. The activists face charges of "assembly and collusion with the intent to disrupt national security", "propaganda against the state", and "disturbing public order", the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The individuals, all members of the Kurdistan...

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has destroyed parts of the protected Shaho Mountain range in the Kermanshah Province by building roads and attempting to establish military bases, local residents and activists say. Residents of the village of Shamshir in Paveh, Kermanshah Province, told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that last week the IRGC sent a convoy of construction equipment and began building roads...

Iranian security forces have arrested Mina Soltani, the mother of Shahriar Mohammadi, a protester killed during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising in 2022, ahead of the second anniversary of the protests. Soltani was arrested without a warrant at her home in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, at around 18:00 local time on 11 September and taken to an undisclosed location, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network...

Iranian authorities executed Sajjad Bandegi, a man convicted of drug-related offences, on 11 September in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement for the execution on 10 September. Bandegi, a 35-year-old from Harsin, Kermanshah Province, was arrested in October 2015, along with another man, Foroud Geravand, on charges of drug trafficking. Geravand, from Kuhdasht in Lorestan Province, was executed in...

Mohsen Esfandiari-Tabar and Lotfollah Parviz, two Kurdish civil rights activists from Gilan-e-Gharb, Kermanshah Province, have been provisionally released on bail after being detained for several weeks, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Esfandiari-Tabar, a 38-year-old navy lieutenant colonel, was released on bail of 10 billion rials (nearly 20,000 USD), while Parviz, a 48-year-old teacher, was released on a 20-billion-rials bail (40,000 USD) on...