Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Security forces have arrested two Kurdish civilians, Aram Sadeghi and Arman Nowshadi, in the cities of Sanandaj and Divandarreh in Kurdistan Province in recent days. Nowshadi, from Divandarreh, was arrested without a warrant at his home in Divandarreh on 16 September. Sadeghi, from Sanandaj, was arrested outside his shop in Sanandaj on 10 September by agents of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

Security forces have arrested at least four more civilians in the run-up to and on the second anniversary of the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Marivan, Divandarreh, Baneh and Bukan. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Kurdish filmmaker Reza Alaei was arrested without a warrant by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in Baneh, Kurdistan Province, as he was leaving his...

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...