Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Imprisoned Kurdish rapper Saman Yasin, who was arrested by Iranian security forces during the anti-government protests in Tehran last September, will be retried on 8 May, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Yasin's case was referred to Branch 15 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran after the Supreme Court overturned his death sentence due to "lack of investigation" in the case. "In the...

Security forces detained Kamal Lotfi, the father of one of the victims of the recent anti-government protests in Dehgolan, Kurdistan province, on 16 April and took him to an undisclosed location. The detained civilian's son, Reza Lotfi, 19, was killed by special forces on 19 September 2022 during the protests in Dehgolan. After their son was killed, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened and pressured...

Rada Fatehi, the sister of one of the victims of the recent anti-government protests in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, was summoned in the past few days to Branch 101 of the city's Criminal Court on the accusation of "disturbing public order and peace". Security forces previously arrested Fatehi in Sanandaj on 14 October 2022, a day after her brothers, Ramin Fatehi and Wrya Fatehi were detained. On...

Arian Khoshgovar, a 17-year-old student severely injured by Iranian special forces during the recent anti-government protests in Sanandaj, died on 15 March after four months of hospitalisation. "On 17 November, Arian Khoshgovar was severely injured by special forces with batons and knives when he returned from his job in the Hajiabad neighbourhood of Sanandaj. The people in the neighbourhood took him to a house and...

The disciplinary committee of the University of Ilam, in western Iran, has banned Negar Davoudi, a software engineering student, from her studies for three semesters over her participation in the recent anti-government protests in the city. On 19 December 2022, the Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Ilam sentenced Davoudi to two years in jail, a two-year ban on international travel, a year...

Iranian judiciary's amnesty commission has rejected the imprisoned Kurdish rapper Saman Yasin's amnesty request, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Yasin, who comes from Kermanshah, western Iran, was arrested after he was beaten by security forces during the anti-government protests in Tehran on 30 September 2022. The amnesty request was made by Yasin's lawyer after Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei announced the "pardon and...

Iranian security forces have arrested 11 civilians since protests broke out in Abdanan, Ilam province, on 1 February against the arrest and issuance of prison sentences for two civilians. The names of the 11 arrested civilians confirmed so far are Saman Moradivandan, Mohammad Cheraghi, Mohammad Gholami, Majid Mirzaei, Ali Safar Mir-Veysi, Amir Hossein Namdaripour, Mojtaba Saeidi, Abdollah Jami, Zabihollah Jamadi, and Sasan Mohammad-Vali. On the evening...

The Branch 103 of the Criminal Court of Ilam, in western Iran, has sentenced Kurdish civilian Mehdi Sadeghi to six months in prison, 74 lashes, and a two-year ban on leaving the country on charges of "disrupting public order and peace". Sadeghi was detained on 12 October 2022 during the recent anti-government protests in Ilam. After his arrest, he was taken to the detention facility of...

The Court of Appeals of Ilam, in western Iran, has sentenced a protester to a suspended prison sentence, payment of a fine in cash and a ban on leaving the country for two years. Kurdish student Farzaneh Seydi was arrested by security forces during the recent anti-government protests in Ilam on 15 October 2022. A month later, she was released on a bail of 3...