Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The political prisoner "Esmat (Mohammad) Salahshour", detained at the Orumiyeh Central Prison, was transferred to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) intelligence unit for the second time in the past two months. Meanwhile, "Kamal Hassan Ramadan", a death row Kurdish political prisoner, was transferred to the Detention Centre of the IRGC for unknown reasons yesterday. KHRN has been informed that...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Two Kurdish detainees known as Farzad Hosseini and Mehdi Ghobadi have been released from the Kamyaran Prison on heavy bail over the past few days. KHRN has been informed that Farzad Hosseini, a member of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party, was released on a bail of one billion Tomans. He was detained by security forces in Kamyaran...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Hiwa Mosazadeh, a prisoner from Piranshahr, who had sewn his lips and gone on hunger strike since Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in protest to his transfer from the Open Prisoners' Section of Naghadeh Prison to the quarantine section of the prison, is still on strike. This prisoner was transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison on the fourth day of his strike,...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Kurdish Labourer, 'Isaac Rouhi" has been released on a bail of 100 million Tomans from Sanandaj Central Prison after 32 days of arrest. Branch 2 of the Public Prosecution and Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj had previously issued a bail of 500 million Tomans for his release. However, upon contesting this verdict, the amount of the bail of this activist was...

Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN): Kourosh (Salar) Pirzadegan, a Kurdish political prisoner, was released from prison following the acceptance of his request for conditional release. He was in prison since the autumn of 2017. Kourosh Pirzadegan is from the Targoor region of Orumiyeh and he was detained at section 1-2 of Ordinary Prisoners' Ward. This political prisoner was arrested by security forces along with his two...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Idris Menbari and Rebvar Menbari, members of the Nozhin cultural-social association, were released after being released for four days. Zahra Mohammadi, another member of the association, is still in detention. A reliable source told KHRN that police force forces had stormed into the homes of Rebvar Menbari Idris Menbari & Zahra Mohammadi on May 23, 2019 and arrested them. According to...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A group of civil activists were arrested in Marivan by law enforcement forces following a peaceful protest to end violence against women on May 16, 2019. "The violence against women has been intensified recently, they are either killed by their relatives or by unknown people. For hundreds of years, women have fallen victim to male-dominated cultures and they are being...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A worker, 'Isaac Rouhi" was returned to the Sanandaj Central Prison quarantine due to his inability to secure his 500 million Tomans bail. "On May 1, 2019, Isaac Rouhi was arrested by security forces when he intended to accompany his family to the International Labour Day at Naysar town in Sanandaj. The agents then took the family back to their...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Pouria Ahmadi, the head of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party and a member of the Central Council of Sanandaj, was arrested when presenting himself at the Sanandaj Intelligence Office following a summons and then he was transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in this city. KHRN has obtained information that this activist was telephone summoned...