Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Detained civilians Ahmad Gholami and Rasoul Obeydi were released from Baneh Prison in Kurdistan province on 17 May on bail of 5 billion Iranian rials each – nearly 10,000 USD – after 20 days in detention. Hours before their release, the two civilians were transferred from the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Baneh to the city's prison after 20 days of interrogation, the Kurdistan...

The fate of two detained civilians, Ahmad Gholami and Rasoul Obeydi who were arrested by Iranian security forces on 1 May in the village of Sivech in Baneh, Kurdistan province, remains unknown. A day later, five other civilians from the village, Osman Mahmoudi, Farhad Rahmanpour, Salam Abdollahi, Zaher Ismaili and Jafar Abdollah-Panah, were summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence in Baneh and interrogated for several...