Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish shopkeeper Zahed Khaledian has been released on bail, while activist Parvin Adwai has been moved from solitary confinement to an ordinary ward and former political prisoner Afshin Hossein-Panahi has been transferred to prison after initial interrogation, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Khaledian, who was arrested in connection with the general strike in protest at the death sentences handed down to Kurdish...

Security forces today arrested former Kurdish political prisoner Afshin Hossein-Panahi in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. He was arrested without a warrant at his workplace and security agents then raided and searched his home in Sanandaj. Hossein-Panahi is the brother of Ramin Hossein-Panahi, a Kurdish political prisoner who was executed in 2018. The former political prisoner was reportedly summoned by telephone...

Branch 2 of the investigation department of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, summoned former Kurdish political prisoner Afshin Hossein-Panahi on 9 November. A relative of the civil rights activist spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and said: "Afshin has been asked to present himself at Branch 2 of the investigation department of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office...