Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian security forces have arrested civilians Khabat Dehdar, Ramyar Dehdar, and Azad Abbasi, in the cities of Sanandaj and Dehgolan in Kurdistan Province and taken them to undisclosed locations. Khabat Dehdar and his brother Ramyar Dehdar were arrested today in Sanandaj without a warrant after security forces raided their home. Khabat Dehdar, a former political prisoner and labour activist, was previously arrested in Sanandaj during the...

Civil rights activists Sirous Abbasi and Azad Abbasi were arrested and subsequently sent to Qorveh Prison after being summoned to the court in Dehgolan, Kurdistan Province. The brothers had previously been sentenced by Branch Two of the Criminal Court of Dehgolan to 48 months, 18 months, and 10 months in prison on charges of "assembly and collusion against national security", "disturbing public order" and "propaganda...

In recent days, the Islamic Revolutionary and the Criminal Courts of the Islamic Republic of Iran sentenced at least six Kurdish civilians who were arrested during the nationwide public protests to imprisonment, flogging and social exclusion. Masoud Kamyab – Sonqor, Kermanshah Province The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Kermanshah sentenced a civil rights activist named Masoud Kamyab to one year of imprisonment, one year of a ban...

Farideh Weissi, a civil activist from Dehgolan was released on bail on Sunday, March 25. She had been on hunger strike at the Sanandaj Correctional Centre in Sanandaj since March 9 in protest to the continued uncertainty about her situation, yesterday Farida Weissi was released from the Sanandaj Correctional Center on a bail of 300 million tomans after a six-day hunger strike. However, her...