Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The imprisonment sentence of four Kurdish civil activists- Ardeshir Mousavi, Arsalan Hedayati, Shahriyar Tahmasebi and Mostafa Bagheri Ashna- previously sentenced to nine months in prison by the Branch 2 of the Kermanshah Islamic Revolutionary Court was reduced to four months. Mustafa Ahmadian, the lawyer for the Kurdish activists, has told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) the Branch 18 of the Court of Appeals reduced...

Four Kurdish activists, Ardeshir Mousavi, Arsalan Hedayati, Shahriyar Tahmasebi and Mostafa Bagheri Ashna, were each sentenced to nine months in prison by branch 4 of the Kermanshah Islamic Revolutionary Court whose verdict was served on their lawyers yesterday. All of these individuals were arrested by the IRCG on July 5, 2018, and were released from Dizelabad Prison on bail after two months in solitary confinement. Mustafa...

Farhad Ariaei and Ali Baderkhani, two political prisoners at the Orumiyeh Central Prison, ended their hunger strike after the prison authorities promised them to take positive steps towards fulfilling their demands. However, Mustafa Bagheri Asnah and Seyed Ardeshir Mousavi, two other detained cultural activists who have been on hunger strike since Aug 8, 2018, are still on hunger strike. According to reports received by Kurdistan...