Two Kurdish civilians Khaled Esmaeili and Nader Mehri who were held for 17 days in the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh, have been transferred to the political ward of the city’s prison on 3 May, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
Esmaeili, 24 years old from Naqadeh, and Mehri, 24 years old from Orumiyeh, were arrested by security forces on 16 April on charges of “collaborating with Salafi religious groups”.
Ministry of Intelligence agents arrested Hassan Ahmadi, a Kurdish artist from Maku, West Azerbaijan Province, on 27 April, taking him to an undisclosed location....
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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...
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...
Kurdish civilians Awat Babakhani, Zaher Mahmoudian, Mohammad Khezri and Saeid Zargoush were arrested by security forces in Oshnavieh, Abdanan, and Divandarreh in the past week and taken to undisclosed locations. Babakhani, from Divandarreh in Kurdistan Province, was arrested by Ministry of Intelligence agents on 15 April, and his condition and whereabouts remain unknown. On 19 April, security forces raided the homes of Khezri and Mahmoudian in...
Loghman Amini, the Friday prayer leader of the Chahar Yar-e Nabi mosque and a religious studies teacher in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, was arrested today following a summons to the Special Clerical Court in Hamadan and taken to an undisclosed location. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Amini received an official notice in recent days ordering him to appear before the Special Clerical...
Srwa Pour-Mohammadi, a Kurdish language teacher and board member of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, was sent to Sanandaj Central Prison on 19 April to begin serving a five-year sentence. Pour-Mohammadi was summoned last week to the Enforcement of Judgements Office at the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, and was detained after appearing before the authorities. In November 2023, Branch One of the...