Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish activists Reza Andisheh and Ashkan Fahim have been transferred to Mahabad and Orumiyeh prisons in West Azerbaijan Province after the conclusion of their interrogation period at the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh. Andisheh was transferred to Mahabad Prison on 15 October and Fahim was moved to Orumiyeh Central Prison on 18 October, the Kurdistan...

More than three weeks after the arrest of Ashkan Fahim, a literary and cultural activist, and Reza Andisheh, a civil rights activist, there is no information on their current status and they are deprived of the right to contact and meet their families. Both activists, along with an unidentified third person, were arrested in a raid carried out by over 60 armed agents of the...

Dozens of agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organisation raided a house in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, on 15 September and arrested Kurdish activists Ashkan Fahim and Reza Andisheh. They forced their way into the house, breaking doors and windows, and arrested the activists after brutally beating and hitting them with rifle butts, causing serious injuries and bleeding, the Kurdistan Human Rights...