Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Branch 101 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Kamyaran, in Iran's northwestern Kurdistan province, has sentenced a Kurdish Sunni cleric named Mohammad Mirza Rahmani and three Kurdish activists, Sirvan Ghorbani, Amanj Ghorbani, and Borhan Kamangar, to 91 days in prison each. The court issued the sentences under Article 500 of the Iranian Islamic Penal Code on charges of "propaganda in favour of groups opposed to...

Four Kurdish activists detained during the funeral of the executed Kurdish political prisoner Heydar Ghorbani have been released on bail in recent days. Security forces had detained Mohammad Mirza Rahmani, a Kurdish cleric, and civil rights activists Sirvan Ghorbani, Amanj Ghorbani, and Borhan Kamangar in Kamyaran, Kurdistan province. The activists were then taken to the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province. In...

Iranian intelligence ministry detained a Kurdish environmental activist in Kamyaran, Kurdistan province, on 21 December. The Ministry of Intelligence arrested the Kurdish environmental activist Amanj Ghorbani after summoning him. The ministry's forces then took him to an undisclosed location. Reportedly, the intelligence ministry arrested the activist over his participation in the funeral of the executed Kurdish political prisoner Heydar Ghorbani in Kamyaran. Heydar Ghorbani was secretly executed...