Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran has released on bail Kurdish political prisoners Faranak Jamshidi and Armin Esperlous in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, in recent days. On 10 June, Jamshidi was imprisoned in the Juvenile Detention Centre of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, to serve a one-year prison sentence. Esperlous, who is also Jamshidi’s husband, has been temporarily released on bail of 150 million Iranian Tomans – nearly 6,000 USD – after 20 days...

Branch 4 of the Enforcement of Judgments Office of the court of Sanandaj has summoned today the environmental activist Faranak Jamshidi and sent her to the Juvenile Detention Centre of Sanandaj to serve her one-year sentence in prison, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Security forces had arrested Jamshidi, who is a member of the Green Kurdistan Society, at her family home in Sanandaj on 28...

An Iranian court has sentenced Kurdish woman and environmental activist Faranak Jamshidi to four years in prison, accusing her of “membership in one of the Kurdish opposition parties”, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The trial of Jamshidi’s case was held on 23 January, and the sentence was officially notified to her lawyer on 2 February. Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in...

Farank Jamshidi, a Kurdish environmental activist, was released from prison on a bail of 200 million Tomans after more than 4 and a half months of detention on Tuesday, November 10. This environmental activist was kept in solitary confinement of the Intelligence Office and the Sanandaj Correctional Center for 3 months and 11 days without the right to visit or contact her family. After completing...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that Faranak Jashmidi, a member of the Green Society of Kurdistan who was arrested on July 29 by forces affiliated with the Sanandaj Intelligence Office, is still being held in custody. During this period, she was transferred to the Detention Center of the Ministry of Intelligence for interrogation during the day and returned to the Sanandaj Correctional...