Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Security forces arrested today a Kurdish civilian named Jalal Amini on the Mirava road in Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, and took him to an undisclosed location. In the past few years, he was repeatedly summoned to the offices of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Intelligence and was interrogated for several hours. Security forces blocked the Mirava road...

Iran has temporarily released Kurdish woman civil rights activist Azimeh Nasseri on a bail of 200 million Iranian Tomans – nearly 8,000 USD – from Orumiyeh Central Prison on 31 August. Forces of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested the activist at her home in Orumiyeh on 27 July. They then took her to the detention centre of the intelligence institution...

Kurdish civil rights activist Azimeh Nasseri has been transferred today, from the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh to the quarantine ward of the city prison, after a month in detention. Separately, Nahid Kamangar, a student of Kurdish language and literature at the University of Kurdistan in Sanandaj, is still held in the women’s ward of...

The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has detained at least 10 Kurdish activists in Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, since 24 July. They have taken the detainees to the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC in Al-Mahdi base in Orumiyeh. Azimeh Nasseri, Anvar Maleki, Kamal Abbasivand, and Shamzin Mohammadi are four of these detainees whose identities have been confirmed. On 25...