Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Haji Barzeh, a Kurdish language teacher from Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, and a member of the Bayan Kurdish Language Institute, was sent to Naqadeh Prison on 18 December to serve a five-month prison sentence. A few weeks ago, the Second Criminal Court in Piranshahr, presided over by Judge Amir Mohammadi, sentenced Barzeh to five months in prison for “propaganda against the state” and fined him...

Security forces arrested Kurdish activists Ayoub Rasoulzadeh and Haji Barzeh on 8 May in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, and took them to an undisclosed location. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Rasoulzadeh, an environmental activist, and Barzeh, a civil rights activist and brother of the Kurdish political prisoner Bapir Barzeh, were arrested without a warrant. The exact location of the activists' detention and...