Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Strikes and protests erupted in Abdanan yesterday after the seventh-day ceremony of Bamshad Soleimankhani, a 21-year-old student from the city who died under suspicious circumstances in Ilam Hospital on 24 May. Shopkeepers and businesses in the city of Abdanan went on strike in protest at the student's unexplained death. There were also mass protests in various parts of the city throughout the evening and into the...

Iranian security forces have arrested 11 civilians since protests broke out in Abdanan, Ilam province, on 1 February against the arrest and issuance of prison sentences for two civilians. The names of the 11 arrested civilians confirmed so far are Saman Moradivandan, Mohammad Cheraghi, Mohammad Gholami, Majid Mirzaei, Ali Safar Mir-Veysi, Amir Hossein Namdaripour, Mojtaba Saeidi, Abdollah Jami, Zabihollah Jamadi, and Sasan Mohammad-Vali. On the evening...

Iran's anti-riot forces and the paramilitary Basij forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) injured at least 20 protesters on 17 October and security forces detained at least 23 in the past few days in Abdanan, in Iran's western Ilam province. Nationwide protests broke out after a 22-year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa (Zhina) Amini died on 16 September after she was hospitalized following her...