Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish literary activists Anisa Jafari-Mehr and Dariush Moradi have been acquitted from the accusation of “propaganda against the state” against them, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). In the morning of 13 June, Anisa Jafari-Mehr appealed to the Public and Revolutionary Court of Eslamabad-e Gharb in Kermanshah province to be informed of the outcome of her trial. The court told her that she...

Security forces affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence unit arrested Dariush Moradi, a member of the editorial board of the cultural-literary site Hesareh, at his family home in Eslamabad e Qarb in Kermanshah province on November 23. Security Forces searched his house and confiscated a number of his personal belongings, including his mobile phone. The arrest of Dariush Moradi coincided with the...

The Iranian security forces arrested two cultural activists in Kermanshah, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).  Fouad Mozaffari, a poet, and Farzad Safareh, a writer, were detained on 18 December by security forces in their family homes. The reason for the arrest of these two Kurdish activists and the charges against them remain unclear who were also arrested earlier in September 2018 for organising a rally in...