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...

Parham Parvari, a national champion and coach in swimming, after completing his Mechanical Engineering degree from Orumiyeh University of Technology, was employed at a company in Tehran. Arrest Parvari was arrested on 3 October 2022, during the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom, in one of the streets of Tehran and transferred to Ward 209 of the Ministry of Intelligence in Evin Prison. During his arrest, he...

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...

Kamal Sharifi was arrested several times in the years 1988 and 1990 on charges of "membership in anti-state groups" and "illegal border crossing", resulting in a total sentence of one year in prison and 80 lashes. He became a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in 1991 after leaving Iran. Arrest On 25 May 2008, Sharifi was arrested...