Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...