Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Seven days after 18-year-old Arya Yousefi was forcibly returned to Iran from Turkey, his whereabouts remain unknown as he is being held by Iranian authorities without any contact with his family. Yousefi, the son of Fatemeh Davand, a Kurdish woman who was previously arrested during anti-government protests in Iran in November 2019, was taken into custody by Iranian security forces at the Maku border in...

Fatemeh Davand, a former Kurdish political prisoner and witness in the Aban Tribunal, was arrested by Turkish police on 3 August along with her son, Arya Yousefi, while attempting to leave Turkey. The mother and son were taken to an undisclosed location, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Davand, who had previously been sentenced by a Turkish court to two years and one month...

Turkish police have detained on 7 April a former Kurdish woman political prisoner, who holds Iranian citizenship, in Kayseri, central Turkey, and have transferred her to the city's centre for the deportation of asylum seekers. Fatemeh Davand left Iran in January 2022 and has been living in Turkey as a political asylum-seeker ever since. "I was detained by the police for no reason in a shopping...

Kurdish civilian Fatemeh Davand was sentenced to 5 years and 5 months in prison and 30 lashes in two separate cases decided at the Bukan Criminal Court and the Mahabad Revolutionary Court in West Azerbaijan province. She was arrested in Saqqez for taking part in protests against the sudden rise in gasoline prices in Iran in November 2019 but she was later released on...

A one billion tomans bail has been set for the temporary release of Fatemeh Davand by Judge Javad Ghulami, a close relative of Davand has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Fatemeh Davand was arrested in Saqqez for taking part in protests against the rise in gasoline prices in Iran in November 2019. She is currently held at the Women's Ward of...

A Kurdish resident of Bukan arrested during the November protests in Iran was forced to make a false confession, and transferred to the Orumiyeh Central Prison following her interrogation, a close relative of the detainee told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network. Fatemeh Davand was arrested in Bukan on 17 November and transferred to the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh. She was under pressure...