Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Security forces have arrested at least nine more Kurdish civilians in recent days as the authorities intensify their crackdown ahead of the second anniversary of the Women, Life, Freedom uprising. Kurdish civilian Rashed Advaei was arrested this morning without a warrant by security forces at his home in the village of Selin in Sarvabad, Kurdistan Province. On 8 September, security forces raided the home of Kurdish...

Kurdish asylum-seeker Behzad Khosravi, a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), has been handed over to Iranian authorities after being detained by security forces in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, according to his family. Khosravi, who had been living in the Kurdistan Region since 2014, was arrested on 18 August. His family learned of his extradition through a phone call from the Ministry...

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has launched a new section of its database of political and religious prisoners, marking the 10th anniversary of the organisation's founding. Known as "Hiwa", the initiative aims to document the cases of Kurdish political and religious prisoners and detainees in Iran. In its initial phase, Hiwa features the names and details of more than 100 individuals, providing an overview of...

Security forces arrested Kurdish civilian Soleyman Choupani during a raid on his home in the village of Gerd Kashaneh in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, on 5 September. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the Ministry of Intelligence raided Choupani's home and arrested him without a warrant. Choupani's current whereabouts and the charges against him remain unknown. The arrest comes at a time of heightened...

Security forces arrested Kurdish civilian Saadoun Sharifi on 4 September in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, as part of a wider wave of arrests targeting Kurdish civilians ahead of the second anniversary of the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising. Sharifi was arrested without a warrant after security forces raided his family's home in the village of Gard Aseh in Piranshahr and taken to an undisclosed location,...