Kurdistan Human Rights Network

In recent years, Ayoub Javanpour has worked as a labourer and kolbar. He was once injured in his leg after falling from a height during a chase by Iranian border forces on a kolbar route. Previously, in October 2017, he was arrested for participating in demonstrations supporting the Kurdish independence referendum and was later released on bail. The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, initially...

Osman Esmaeili is a well-known Kurdish labour activist who has been repeatedly summoned, arrested, and imprisoned by security agencies for his activities in defence of workers' rights. Arrest Esmaeili was arrested on 8 February 2023 by security forces in Saqqez and transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. After 70 days of detention, he was provisionally released from Saqqez prison on bail...