Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian security forces have detained at least 30 Kurdish religious activists and civilians (in the cities of Saqqez, Sardasht, Bukan and Mahabad) and have transferred them to unknown locations. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence have raided the houses of a number of religious activists and civilians in Saqqez, Bukan, Mahabad and Sardasht at the same time...

The security forces have targeted a Kurdish citizen's vehicle on the Miandoab route to Bokan. This attack resulted in the death of a Kurdish citizen while there is no information on the fate of the other three passengers in the vehicle. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that security forces have targeted a vehicle near the cities of Gojgel and Moshirabad of Miandoab...

Despite three days since the arrest of a poet and civil activist known as "Anwar Arab" from the city of Bukan by the security forces, no information has been received about his fate and whereabouts. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Tuesday, July 02, Bukan Intelligence Bureau officers arrested Anwar Arab at his home while inspecting the house and seizing some...

Two Kurdish activists were sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment in total on charges of "propaganda against the regime” by Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that, on April 25, the trial of two activists known as Jafar Amini and Hamed Sepehri was held at the Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh on charges of "propaganda against the state". Both activists, members...

On Tuesday, two activists from Bukan, who were arrested last March during the protest Against Turkish Attack on Kurds in Afarin, were temporarily released. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Tuesday, April 18, two activists from Bukan known as Jafar (Dara) Amini and Hamed Sepehri both arrested on Wednesday, March 14 during the protest Against Turkish Attack on Kurds in...

On March 18, 2018, during the football match between Sardar Bukan and Bandar Abbas municipality at Khatam al-Anbiya Stadium in Bukan, one of the football fans entered the football pitch and the audience also shouted slogans against Turkish Attack on Kurds in Afrin. Consequently, the security forces attacked protesters with tear gas and batons. This incident led to the injury of a number of...

Following the protests against the Turkish military attack, security forces have arrested two other Kurdish citizens in Bukan during the past days. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that during the protest rally in a number of cities in Kurdistan against the Turkish military attack on Monday of March 12, 2018, security forces arrested two other Kurdish citizens, called Jafar Amini and Hamid...

In the last few weeks, a female student from Bukan ended her life by hanging herself. According to the reports received by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), a student terminated her life by hanging herself for unknown reasons. Her name was Derakhshan Mohammadzadeh, 24-year-old. She was a student at the University of Applied Science and Technology. It should be noted that another woman called Shilan Amini set...