Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Arrest Zahed Khaledian, a Kurdish shopkeeper from Qorveh, Kurdistan Province, was arrested at his workplace on 23 January 2025 by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in connection with the general strike in protest at the death sentences of Kurdish female political prisoners Pakhshan Azizi and Verisheh (Wirishe) Moradi. Defendant’s Rights He was arrested without a warrant and has since been denied family visits and access to...

Azad Abbasi, a Kurdish language teacher from Dehgolan, Kurdistan Province, and the head of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, has been repeatedly summoned and detained by security forces in recent years due to his civil rights activities. Arrest Abbasi was arrested by security forces in Dehgolan on 19 September 2023 and taken to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province.  After a few days he...