Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish women activists Baran Saedi and Leyla Pashaei have been charged with new offences and had their bail amount increased by Branch Two of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. The pair were initially arrested for their involvement in organising an International Women’s Day event in the city. On 26 May, they appeared before the prosecutor’s office in Sanandaj, where they were...

Kurdish women activists Baran Saedi and Leyla Pashaei, who were arrested after taking part in an International Women’s Day event in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, have been provisionally released on bail. The activists were arrested by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence following the 8 March rally and taken to the ministry's detention centre in the city, where they were held in solitary confinement for 10...

Kurdish women activists Baran Saedi and Leyla Pashaei, who were arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, on 9 and 10 March respectively, remain in detention without contact with their families. The two women are being held in the Ministry of Intelligence’s detention centre in Sanandaj and have been denied access to both legal representation and family visits, the Kurdistan Human Rights...

The whereabouts of Kurdish women activists Leyla Pashaei, Soheyla Motaei, Soma Mohammad-Rezaei and Baran Saedi, who were arrested by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj and Dehgolan in recent days, remain unknown. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the activists have been denied access to legal counsel and family visits. Despite repeated requests from their families, the security and judicial authorities...

Ministry of Intelligence forces arrested four Kurdish women activists on 10 March reportedly linked to International Women’s Day events in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. Leyla Pashaei and Soheyla Motaei were arrested without warrants by intelligence agents in the cities of Sanandaj and Dehgolan in Kurdistan Province and taken to an undisclosed location, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Intelligence agents also raided Soma Mohammad-Rezaei's shop...

Ministry of Intelligence forces today arrested Kurdish civil rights activist Baran Saedi without a warrant in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, and took her to an undisclosed location. Saedi was arrested during a Ministry of Intelligence raid on her home in Sanandaj. The activist was previously arrested on 20 September 2023 during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Sanandaj and was released on bail after approximately two...

Iranian authorities in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, have extended the temporary detention of a civil rights activist named Baran Saedi for 10 days. Security forces arrested Saedi at her home in Sanandaj on 20 September. They then took her to the Juvenile Detention Centre of Sanandaj. Since then, she was taken to the detention facility of the Ministry of Intelligence many times for interrogation. Security interrogators pressured and threatened...

Iranian security forces detained five Kurdish woman activists named Faranak Rafiei, Baran Saedi, Mahrou Hedayati, Azadeh Jamaati and Bahar Zangiband in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, in the past few days. The activists were taken to undisclosed locations. On 19 September, security forces raided Saedi's house and arrested her without presenting a court order. Jamati was arrested after she went to the office of the Ministry of Intelligence in...