Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A Kurdish political prisoner named Barzan Mohammadi was released from Marivan prison after 15 months of imprisonment on 13 August. The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested the Kurdish civil rights activist on 7 June 2021 in the Goshkhani village of Sarvabad, Kurdistan province. A day after his arrest, Mohammadi was transferred to Marivan Prison. The activist's court hearing was held online in...

Former political prisoner Barzan Mohammadi has been transferred to Marivan Prison on 8 June after being detained and interrogated for a day in the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Sarvabad, Kurdistan province. The IRGC intelligence forces arrested the 41-year-old Kurdish civilian, who comes from Sarvabad and is a resident of Tehran, on 7 June in the...