Kurdistan Human Rights Network

News emerge on Kurdish political prisoner after 30 months of silence

After a two-year-and-a-half silence, the Iranian judicial authorities and central prison of Kermanshah have disclosed information on the fate of a Kurdish political prisoner that the Iranian security forces had arrested 30 months ago. A reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that "on 1 June 2014, Saywan Rahimi, a former political prisoner who previously served a prison sentence, was ambushed by...

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