Prisoners Abdolhossein Emami Moghaddam and Hossein Panjak who were sentenced to death on drug-related charges, were today transferred to solitary confinement in Qezel Hesar Prison in Karaj for execution.
Emami Moghaddam, from Kuhdasht in the province of Lorestan, was arrested about 13 years ago, and Panjak, from Tehran, about 10 years ago.
Security forces have arrested at least four more civilians in the run-up to and on the second anniversary of the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom...
Read MoreThe Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has summoned 14 Kurdish teacher activists for questioning as the second anniversary of the...
Read MoreThe Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has destroyed parts of the protected Shaho Mountain range in the Kermanshah Province by building roads and attempting...
Read MoreIranian security forces have arrested Mina Soltani, the mother of Shahriar Mohammadi, a protester killed during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising in 2022,...
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Security forces have arrested at least four more civilians in the run-up to and on the second anniversary of the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Marivan, Divandarreh, Baneh and Bukan. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Kurdish filmmaker Reza Alaei was arrested without a warrant by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in Baneh, Kurdistan Province, as he was leaving his...
The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has summoned 14 Kurdish teacher activists for questioning as the second anniversary of the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising approaches. The activists face charges of "assembly and collusion with the intent to disrupt national security", "propaganda against the state", and "disturbing public order", the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The individuals, all members of the Kurdistan...
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has destroyed parts of the protected Shaho Mountain range in the Kermanshah Province by building roads and attempting to establish military bases, local residents and activists say. Residents of the village of Shamshir in Paveh, Kermanshah Province, told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that last week the IRGC sent a convoy of construction equipment and began building roads...
Iranian security forces have arrested Mina Soltani, the mother of Shahriar Mohammadi, a protester killed during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising in 2022, ahead of the second anniversary of the protests. Soltani was arrested without a warrant at her home in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, at around 18:00 local time on 11 September and taken to an undisclosed location, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network...
Iranian authorities executed Sajjad Bandegi, a man convicted of drug-related offences, on 11 September in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement for the execution on 10 September. Bandegi, a 35-year-old from Harsin, Kermanshah Province, was arrested in October 2015, along with another man, Foroud Geravand, on charges of drug trafficking. Geravand, from Kuhdasht in Lorestan Province, was executed in...