Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Amirhossein Haghjouyan, the cousin of the executed Kurdish Yarsan civilian Reza Rasaei, was released on bail from Kermanshah Central Prison on 5 October after spending 12 days in detention. Haghjouyan, who faces charges of “insulting religious sanctities”, was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Sahneh, Kermanshah Province, on 23 September.  The civilian was transferred from an IRGC intelligence detention...

Kamran Ghassemi and Keyvan Rashozadeh, two political prisoners from Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, were conditionally released on 5 October after serving five years in Orumiyeh Central Prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.  Ghassemi had been on hunger strike since 25 September in protest at the authorities' refusal to grant him conditional release. Both men were released on 5 October, but Ghassemi, who had...

The second court session of Verisheh Moradi, a member of the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR), took place on 5 October in Branch 15 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, despite her legal team's limited access to her case. Moradi faces charges of "armed insurrection" (baghi) through her alleged membership of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK). The session, presided over by Judge Abolghassem...

Zhina Modares Gorji, a journalist and prominent women’s rights activist from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has had her 21-year prison sentence reduced to two years and four months by an appeals court. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Modares Gorji, who was originally sentenced by Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, saw her sentence reduced in a recent hearing at...

The Iranian authorities have executed three prisoners, Mowloud Khaledian, Nima Moradi and Nasrollah Mennati, on charges of premeditated murder in Ilam Central Prison in Ilam Province and Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. Khaledian, a father of one from the village of Qamlu in Qorveh, Kurdistan Province, was executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj on the morning of 2 October. He was arrested four...