Iranian security forces on Thursday 29 April detained Kurdish civilians Sherko Menbari and Kaveh Menbari, and took them to an undisclosed location, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
So far, no information has been received on the charges against the two civilians who come from Niyar village of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province.
Dozens of security forces assaulted a group of civil rights activists from several Kurdish cities on 24 July, following the funeral of Esmaeil Karimi,...
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Dozens of security forces assaulted a group of civil rights activists from several Kurdish cities on 24 July, following the funeral of Esmaeil Karimi, an environmental activist from Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, and arrested at least five activists. The funeral of Karimi, an employee of the Natural Resources Department of Kamyaran who died fighting a fire in the Kanisheh pastures, took place in the village of...
The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested five Kurdish civil rights activists in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, following the funeral of Esmaeil Karimi, an environmental activist who died while fighting a wildfire in the village of Najafabad in Kamyaran. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that IRGC intelligence agents arrested activists Farideh Veysi, Hamid Sabzeh, Amanj Ghorbani, Farzin Movahhedi and...
Hassan Amini, brother of Mohammad Amini, a protester killed during the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government uprising in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has been imprisoned in Sanandaj Central Prison to serve a six month and 15 day sentence. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Amini was arrested after being summoned to the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Sanandaj on 21 July. He was convicted...
Kurdish civilian Feyzollah Shadi was arrested by security forces at his workplace in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, on 14 July and released 24 hours later, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The arrest was reportedly due to Shadi's use of the word "martyr" for his uncle in the obituary of his grandmother, Masoumeh Doroudi. Osman Shafiei, Shadi's uncle, was a member of the Democratic Party...
Ali Allah-Veysi, a civil rights activist and former political prisoner, was arrested by security forces in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, on 14 July and taken to an undisclosed location. The activist was arrested without a judicial warrant and the authorities have not disclosed any charges or the location of his detention. Allah-Veysi, a member of the Jiyanaway Kurdistan Campaign, was previously arrested by security forces in Sanandaj...