Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Arashk Gheysar-Beygi, a 15-year-old high school student, was released on bail of 10 billion Iranian rials – nearly 20,000 USD – on 25 July after 27 days in detention at the Juvenile Detention Centre of Ilam. Gheysar-Beygi was arrested after being summoned to appear in court in Sarableh, Ilam province, on 29 June. He was arrested on the public prosecutor’s orders and transferred to the...

Iranian authorities are still holding Arashk Gheysar-Beygi, a 15-year-old high-school student, in the Juvenile Detention Centre of Ilam, Ilam Province, without any charges. According to an informed source, the child was subjected to physical and mental torture during his interrogation at the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre, which has left him in an inappropriate mental state. The authorities have informed Gheysar-Beygi's family that their child will...

Arashk Gheysar-Beygi, a 15-year-old student from Sarableh in Ilam province, has been subjected to physical and psychological torture by Ministry of Intelligence interrogators in order to extract forced "confessions". The incident occurred after the child was summoned to the city court and subsequently arrested on 29 June. The city prosecutor informed the family that the detained child would only be released if his older brother, Arshia...