Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Arrest Sohrab Avizkan was arrested  by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on 19 November 2022 during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom

Arrest  Adel Kakeh, a civilian from the village of Doustali in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, was arrested without a warrant by security forces at his home in the village on 3 September

Arrest  Ramyar Aboubakri, the 16-year-old brother of Zanyar Aboubakri, a protester who was killed during the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan

Arrest Omid Ahmadnezhad, a Kurdish singer, was arrested on 3 September 2024 following a raid by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran on his home in the village of

Arrest Ashkan Fahim was arrested along with several other activists during a raid on his home in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, by dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)

Arrest Galawezh Mohammadi-Arshad was arrested by security forces on 14 August 2024 in the Bagh-e Shayegan neighbourhood of Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, and taken to an undisclosed

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

On 22 September 2010, a bomb explosion during a military parade in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, resulted in the deaths of 12 people and injured 40 others. Following the explosion, military

Arsalan Khodkam is a former member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI). In 2002, after parting ways with the party and receiving a "safe conduct" letter, he returned to Iran and began