Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Ministry of Intelligence agents arrested Hassan Ahmadi, a Kurdish artist from Maku, West Azerbaijan Province, on 27 April, taking him to an undisclosed location. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the agents raided Ahmadi’s home and arrested him without a warrant after searching the property. Despite repeated efforts by Ahmadi’s family to find out about his fate, the security and judicial authorities have...

Hamed Geravand, a prisoner from Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, has died by suicide after his request for prison leave was rejected in Gheymas Prison in Mahidasht, Kermanshah Province. Geravand, 34, ended his life by taking an overdose of pills on 27 April. On 27 April, Geravand met with a deputy prosecutor in Kermanshah's judiciary, identified as Eini, to discuss the possibility of another period of leave. However, the...

Kurdish Sunni cleric Saber Khoda-Moradi has been sentenced to prison, while fellow cleric Ayat Gholami has been arrested, in a renewed wave of crackdowns by the Special Clerical Courts. The Special Clerical Court in Hamadan recently sentenced Saber Khoda-Moradi, the Friday prayer leader of the town of Qawakh in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, to 22 months in prison. He had already received a 15-month prison sentence in...

Iranian authorities have refused to hand over the body of Kurdish political prisoner Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heidaranlou following his secret execution, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On the evening of 21 April, his family were summoned by judicial officials in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, informed of the secret execution and warned against holding a public memorial. Behzad Sarkhanlou, the Deputy Prosecutor of Orumiyeh, told...

Iranian authorities have secretly executed Kurdish political prisoner Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heidaranlou, his family was told on the evening of 21 April after being summoned to the Orumiyeh court in West Azerbaijan Province. Officials did not disclose when the execution took place. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that on the evening of 21 April, the Deputy Prosecutor of Orumiyeh, Behzad Sarkhanlou, informed the...