Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran has temporarily released today Ayoub Hadisi, a member of the Piranshahr Association of Environmental Supporters, from Naqadeh Prison after 67 days in detention on bail of 1.5 billion tomans — nearly 60,000 USD. Security forces had arrested Hadisi at his workplace in Piranshahr, Iran’s northwestern West Azerbaijan province, on 29 January. He was taken to the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh,...

Iranian security forces arrested at least eight Kurdish civilians and activists in the past two days in the northwestern cities of Saqqez, Marivan, and Piranshahr. Zamaneh Ziviyeh, Meghdad Hassannezhad, Shaban Mohammadi, Rebwar Abdollahi, Morad Mamah-Rash, Ayoub Hadisi, Rahman Khedmatgozar, Ali Omarpour, and Faryad Shilan were detained and taken to an undisclosed location on 30-31 January. These individuals have been detained in some cases with beatings by...