Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish labour activist and former political prisoner Hajar Saeidi was imprisoned on 18 November to serve a one-year sentence at the Juvenile Detention Centre of Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. In recent days, Saeidi was summoned to serve her sentence by Branch Four of the Enforcement of Judgements Office of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Sanandaj. Security forces arrested Saeidi and seven other labour activists while...

Iranian Ministry of Intelligence has arrested at least five Kurdish labour activists in the scope of the new wave of arrests in Sanandaj, in Kurdistan province. The ministry summoned and detained the activists named Eghbal Shabani on 9 February and Hajar Saeidi, Fardin Miraki, Issa Moradi, and Ramin Karimi on 10 February. A new wave of arrests and summonses of Kurdish labour activists was launched two...