Hiva Ghoreishi Archives - KHRN

December 11, 2024

Teachers’ union activists in Kurdistan sentenced to dismissal, exile

The Preliminary Board for Administrative Violations of Employees in Kurdistan Province has sentenced four members of the Kurdistan Teachers' Trade Association to permanent dismissal, expulsion and exile, while another activist's expulsion sentence was reduced on appeal. Omid Shah-Mohammadi was sentenced to permanent dismissal from all government jobs, Hiva Ghoreishi and Kaveh Mohammadzadeh were dismissed from their posts, and Parviz Ehsani was sentenced to five years'...

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September 2, 2022

Iran temporarily releases Kurdish activist teachers in Sanandaj

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, temporarily released four Kurdistan-Divandarreh Teachers' Union members, named Omid Shah-Mohammadi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh and Hiva Ghoreishi after 76 days on 30 August. The four activists were released on a bail of one and a half billion Iranian Tomans – nearly 47,000 USD – each. Last week, the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Sanandaj extended the temporary...

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August 25, 2022

Activist teachers’ detention extended in Sanandaj

The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, has extended the temporary detention of four members of the Kurdistan-Divandarreh Teachers' Union for ten more days. The activists Omid Shah-Mohammadi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh and Hiva Ghoreishi were arrested by security forces in Divandarreh, Kurdistan province, on 15 June. In the past few days, the families of the activists went to the Public and Revolutionary...

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August 5, 2022

Sanandaj: Temporary detention of four activist teachers extended

The temporary detention of four members of the Kurdistan-Divandarreh Teachers' Union named Omid Shah-Mohammadi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh, and Hiva Ghoreishi, was extended on 3 August for another month. These Kurdish teachers are still kept in the solitary cell of the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, without the right to have a lawyer or family visits. The Coordinating Council of...

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July 20, 2022

Sanandaj: Iran intelligence continues to hold 4 teachers in detention

Some four members of the Kurdistan-Divandarreh Teachers' Union, named Omid Shah-Mohammadi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh, and Hiva Ghoreishi, are still held in the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province. They are denied the right to have a lawyer or receive family visits. Security forces arrested these teachers on 15 June during a protest rally of teachers in front of the Ministry...

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July 11, 2022

Teachers’ union activists remain in custody in Sanandaj, Tehran

Some seven detained teachers' union activists named Shaban Mohammadi, Masoud Nikkhah, Eskandar Lotfi, Omid Shah-Mohammadi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh, and Hiva Ghoreishi are still held in custody in Tehran's Evin Prison and the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province. Security forces had previously arrested the activists in the cities of Marivan and Divandarreh in Kurdistan province. On 5 July, Lotfi, the...

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