Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): On Wednesday evening, Apr 24, 2019 security forces transferred a number of Kurdish environmental activists and Kurdish members of the National Unity Party from the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj to Kamyaran and filmed them for a television documentary. "Following a clash between the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the gunmen of one of the Kurdish opposition...

The family of Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostadghader (Two members of the Kurdistan Freedom Party who were arrested on Aug 3, 2018 by security forces near Saqqez) visited them on Oct 28 and 29. Security interrogators told the families that they will be transferred to the Saqqez {Prosecutor's Office in two weeks. An informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that “Mohammad Ostadaghader's father...

Iranian security forces have detained three more Kurdish civilians in the Iranian Kurdish cities of Saqqez, Oshnavieh (Shno in Kurdish) and Sanandaj over the past few days. Meanwhile, officers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have questioned a number of Kurdish civilians and civil society activists in several Kurdish cities. Iranian security forces in Saqqez arrested Kurdish civilian Sediq Rahman Zadeh and one of his...

Hoshyar Kasraei, a citizen from the village of Nay of Marivan who had been arrested by security forces earlier this year on July 11, 2018, was released from Marivan Prison on a bail of 200 million Tomans. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that this Kurdish citizen was temporarily released from the Marivan prison on bail on Oct 16, 2018 until his trial...