Kurdistan Human Rights Network

In its monthly reports, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) highlights cases of human rights violations in Kurdistan and violations of the rights of Kurdish civilians in different regions and cities across Iran. This report includes all cases recorded and reported by KHRN from across Iran through its own sources and verification mechanisms from 1 September to 30 September. The restrictive environment for independent human rights...

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...