Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Foad Fathi (Sirous Fathi) has been summoned and arrested several times for his labour and trade union activities. Arrest Fathi was arrested by security forces in Tehran on 4 November 2023 and was taken to Evin Prison in Tehran Judicial Process After being formally charged by Branch Seven of the Evin Prosecutor's Office, Fathi's trial was held on 1 December 2024 at Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary...

Wrisha Moradi, a graduate in biology, spent several years working as a sports coach for underprivileged children and as a civil rights activist focused on women's and student issues in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. In 2010, she moved to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where she continued her activities by joining the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR). She participated in the fight against the Islamic State...

Sakineh Parvaneh, a former political prisoner, was first arrested in the autumn of 2019 while residing in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. During a security operation, she was detained by agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the Iranian consulate in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, during a visit with her family. She was then transferred to Iran, spending 10 days in detention centres in Marivan and...

Pakhshan Azizi, a graduate in social work from Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran, has a history of previous arrests by security forces. She was first detained on 16 November 2009 during a protest gathering of Kurdish students at Tehran University against political executions in Kurdistan. She was released on bail after four months of detention and eventually left Iran, residing in the Kurdistan Region of...

Arrest Ahmadian was arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, on 5 October 2010. He was held in solitary confinement for 230 days in security detention centres in Sardasht, Saqqez, and Sanandaj, where he endured severe interrogation and torture. His family had no information about his whereabouts and condition for a long time, and initially, the Ministry...