Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Mokhtar Zarei, a Kurdish Civil Rights activist, has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment on charges of "participation in protest gathering and conspiracy against national security" by the Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj. The sentence had previously been issued in absentia and it was approved by the court after the request for a trial with...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A Kurdish civilian, “Danial Darab Khani” who was arrested in Kermanshah in March 2017 following a nationwide protest in December, has been sentenced to one year in prison for "acting against national security.” KHRN obtained that, the trial of this civilian was held last November in Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary court of Kermanshah chaired by Judge Shahrokh Moradi....

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Members of a family from Orumiyeh have been detained on charges of cooperation with The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran since March. Ebrahim Sediq Hamedani and his two children, Salar and Maryam Sediq Hamedani, were arrested by security forces on February 23, All these three people were transferred to the Orumiyeh Central Prison after two months of interrogation at...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A Kurdish civilian, “Sarah Zahmatkesh”, was arrested by Security forces in Paveh. "Sara Zahmatkesh, 24, and a resident of Tin village of Paveh was arrested by a team of security forces on Apr 22, 2019, at her shop in Paveh and she was transferred to an unknown location” a reliable source told KHRN. However, her family is still unaware of the...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A Kurdish prisoner, Ahmad Irani (known as Aha Chateh), was executed on murder charges at Sanandaj Central Prison on April 28. The prisoner was arrested in 2011 on the charge of murdering two people in a conflict over a plot of land in the city of Marivan and sentenced to death. On Apr 14, 2019, after becoming aware of the possibility...

Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN): On Tuesday, Apr 23, 2019, the forces of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Kamyaran and the Gashki Operational Axis distributed flyers in mosques in villages around Shaho mountains to anounce the beginning of military manoeuvres in the mountainous areas of the villages of Dewaznaw and Palangan. IRGC has asked the local people to leave the area as soon as...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network(KHRN): The Labour activist “Towfiq Mohammadi” was transferred to Sanandaj Central Prison after 45 days of detention at the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre. This labour activist was arrested by security forces on March 9, 2019 at his workplace in Sanandaj. Although Towfiq Mohammadi was transferred to the prison with a temporary arrest warrant, branch 2 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court announced that...

Two environmental activists, Armin Esperlus and Homayoun Bahmani, have been released on bail after several weeks of arrest. Armin Esperlus, who was arrested by security forces on Feb 21, 2019, was released from Sanandaj Central Prison yesterday on a bail of 250 million Tomans. Homayoun Bahmani was arrested on Saturday, December 01 by security forces at the Saqez-Sanandaj road and he was held at the...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network(KHRN): Four Kurdish religious prisoners - Anwar Khezri, Ayoub Karimi, Qasem Abasteh, and Dawood Abdollahi- were transferred from Karaj Prison to the Mahabad Prison for trial at the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad on Apr 20, 2019. KHRN has been informed that these prisoners had been transferred to Mahabad Prison to be prosecuted for the murder of a Sunni cleric called “Abdul...