Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office of Eslamabad-e Gharb, Kermanshah province, has demanded reconsideration of the acquitted Kurdish literary activist Anisa Jafari-Mehr's court case. The case has been referred to the Court of Appeals. The court of the first instance had previously acquitted Jafari-Mehr from the charge of “propaganda against the state”. The activist’s lawyer Mostafa Ahmadian confirmed the news to the Kurdistan Human Rights...

Kurdish literary activists Anisa Jafari-Mehr and Dariush Moradi have been acquitted from the accusation of “propaganda against the state” against them, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). In the morning of 13 June, Anisa Jafari-Mehr appealed to the Public and Revolutionary Court of Eslamabad-e Gharb in Kermanshah province to be informed of the outcome of her trial. The court told her that she...

In an interview with the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, Mustafa Ahmadian, a lawyer in Kermanshah, announced that his clients called Anisa Jafari-Mehr and Dariush Moradi had been released on bail. According to Ahmadian, 'Anisa Jafari-Mehr' and 'Dariush Moradi' were released from the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Kermanshah on the December 09 and December 07 respectively on bail of 350 million. Mustafa Ahmadian added that...

Security forces affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence unit arrested Dariush Moradi, a member of the editorial board of the cultural-literary site Hesareh, at his family home in Eslamabad e Qarb in Kermanshah province on November 23. Security Forces searched his house and confiscated a number of his personal belongings, including his mobile phone. The arrest of Dariush Moradi coincided with the...