Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The detention of two Kurdish civilians, Salam Soltani and Amir Fagheh, who have been held in an uncertain state in Naqadeh Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, has been extended for another month, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Soltani and Fagheh were arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence on 6 May and 22 May, respectively, in the village of Khoranj in Piranshahr, West...

Mina Soltani, the mother of Shahriar Mohammadi, a protester killed during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising in 2022 in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, remains in detention without access to legal representation or family visits, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Since her arrest on 11 September, Soltani has had only one brief phone call with a relative, during which she revealed that...

The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) today arrested Amirhossein Haghjouyan, the cousin of the executed Kurdish Yarsan civilian Reza Rasaei, in Sahneh, Kermanshah Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that armed IRGC intelligence agents raided Haghjouyan's family plant nursery on the outskirts of Sahneh at 07:30 local time and took him to an undisclosed location. There is no information...

Sayyad Darvishi, the brother of Farjad Darvishi, the protester killed by Iranian forces during the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, has been sent to Orumiyeh Central Prison to serve an eight-month sentence. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Darvishi was arrested after being summoned by the Orumiyeh Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in recent days. Darvishi was...

Security forces have arrested at least seven Kurdish civilians in Divandarreh and Marivan, Kurdistan Province, and Gilan-e Gharb, Kermanshah Province, in recent days, continuing the recent wave of arrests targeting Kurdish civilians and activists. On 19 September, security forces arrested Khalil Asghari without a warrant at his workplace in Divandarreh. On 17 September, Salah Fathi was arrested in the village of Rashidabad, and Mani Mohammadi in...