Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Anvar Chaleshi, a Kurdish political prisoner suffering from colon cancer, remains handcuffed and shackled in a hospital in Orumiyeh as the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has blocked his medical leave, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Chaleshi, 50, was transferred to Khomeini Hospital several weeks ago due to his deteriorating health. A source familiar with his condition told the...

Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh last week sentenced Kurdish civilians Anvar Chaleshi and Kamel Jabarvand (Saydan Maskan) to seven years in prison each. The court charged the civilians with “acting against national security” through “membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI)”. On 2 December 2020, the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested them and another civilian...