Edris Feqhi Archives - KHRN

July 23, 2024

Mother of forcibly disappeared PJAK member appeals to international community for help

Today marks the third anniversary of the arrest and enforced disappearance of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Feqhi's mother, Fatemeh Maghsoudi, released a video saying that the Iranian security services had been hiding her son for three years and that she had recently received a phone call from the Ministry of Intelligence...

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January 4, 2024

Concerns rise over fate of PJAK member forcibly disappeared by IRGC

Worries have heightened over the well-being and fate of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), who was detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) almost 29 months ago. Fatemeh Maghsoudi, Faqhi's mother, expressed her frustration in a video obtained by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), saying that the security forces have not provided clear answers regarding her son's...

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May 12, 2023

Forcibly disappeared PJAK member’s mother released

Fatemeh Maghsoudi, the mother of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) who was forcibly disappeared 21 months ago by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was released on 11 May after signing a written pledge not to stage sit-ins outside security institutions in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province. Maghsoudi, 67, was arrested on 9 May for staging...

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May 11, 2023

PJAK member’s detained mother sent to State Welfare Organisation

Fatemeh Maghsoudi, the mother of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) who was forcibly disappeared, was sent to the State Welfare Organisation of Iran after being detained by security forces. Maghsoudi, 67, was arrested on 9 May for staging a sit-in outside the office of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province,...

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May 10, 2023

Forcibly disappeared PJAK member’s protesting mother arrested

Fatemeh Maghsoudi, the mother of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) who was forcibly disappeared, was arrested on 9 May for staging a sit-in before the office of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province. The PJAK member was forcibly disappeared 21 months ago after being injured and arrested by the IRGC. Feqhi's...

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March 25, 2023

Concerns grow over fate of ‘forcibly disappeared’ PJAK member

Concerns grow over the fate of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), who was detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) nearly 20 months ago. The PJAK member forcibly disappeared on 24 July 2021 after being injured by the IRGC. The mother of the political prisoner said in a message that the security agencies have not given her a clear...

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September 12, 2022

Amnesty calls on Iran to reveal fate of detained Kurdish dissident

Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to disclose the fate of Kurdish dissident Edris Feqhi, whom the rights organisation’s urgent appeal statement said had been "forcibly disappeared" since July 2021 and was "at risk of torture and other ill-treatment".  Feqhi had been arrested after he was injured following armed clashes between Iranian government forces and Iranian Kurdish armed opposition group Free Life Party of...

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September 2, 2022

Iran intelligence ministry interrogates detained PJAK member’s mother

The Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, summoned and interrogated Fatemeh Maghsoudi, the mother of the detained Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) member Edris Feqhi in the past few days. Maghsoudi was interrogated for several hours regarding the release of a video of her on the first anniversary of her son's enforced disappearance. The interrogators have told her that she has no right to wear...

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July 25, 2022

Concerns grow over condition of PJAK member a year after arrest

One year after the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) member Edris Feqhi was arrested and forcibly disappeared by Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) forces, concerns are mounting about his condition and fate. The political prisoner's mother says that she has not received any clear answers about his condition during the past year. The family of Feqhi, who disappeared on 24 July 2021 after being wounded by the...

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