Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The fate of Kurdish rapper Saman Yasin, who was transferred from Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, northern Iran, to an undisclosed location on 28 January, remains unknown. The political prisoner was previously sentenced to death on the charge of "enmity against God" (moharebeh), which carries the death penalty in Iran. In the past few months, the sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court and the case...

The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tabriz, East Azerbaijan province, has sentenced the detained 27-year-old Kurdish civilian Towhid (Loghman) Darvish to 10 years of imprisonment in exile in Ahvaz prison and payment of 5 billion Tomans – nearly 125,000 USD – in damages to a bank. The security forces claimed that they had arrested him for "participation in setting fire to a bank" during the protests...

Kurdish rapper Saman Yasin, who was sentenced to death over taking part in the recent anti-government protests in Iran's Tehran before his sentence was overturned for retrial, suffers from a breathing disorder caused by the torture he was subjected to during his interrogation in Evin Prison but has so far been denied access to proper medical care outside the jail, Kurdistan Human Rights Network...

Some 10 people arrested during the anti-government protests in the cities of Abdanan and Dehloran in Ilam province, western Iran, went on a hunger strike on 7 January to protest against their continued detention. The protesters have been transferred to a detention facility in the city of Ilam for temporary detention. Some of these people have been in detention for more than three months, and the...

Iranian security agencies have pressured a family whose son was shot to death by the military-security forces in Orumiyeh, north-western Iran, forcing them to say that the young man died from a dog bite. Nima (Aslan) Shafagh-Doust, 17, who comes from Orumiyeh, was injured after being shot twice in his legs on 21 September 2022 during the anti-government protests in the Eslamabad neighbourhood of the...

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Court in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province, has sentenced a Kurdish journalist named Saman Ghazali to eight months in prison and a one-year ban from journalism on charges of "propaganda against the state". Ghazali was arrested after being summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence in Mahabad on 25 September. A few days later, he was transferred to the detention centre of the security institution...

Saman Yasin, a Kurdish artist sentenced to death, attempted to commit suicide by taking pills on the evening of 20 December due to the harsh detention conditions in Hall 31 of Ward 10 of Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, northern Iran. While Yasin was unconscious, he was taken to the prison infirmary to have his stomach washed, and be injected with the serum. Although he was...

A protester named Mohammad Haji Rasulpour, tortured under detention in Bukan, West Azerbaijan, lost his life today in the intensive care unit of a hospital in the city. Rasulpour, a former political prisoner, was temporarily released from prison on 13 December due to his deteriorating physical condition caused by torture. The security forces arrested him twice in Bukan since the beginning of the public protests. His last...

A Kurdish worker named Pouria Javaheri, who was arrested in Kamyaran, Kurdistan province, on 29 November after being summoned to the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been accused of "enmity against God" (moharebeh). Since his arrest, the civilian has managed to make only one short phone call to his family. In the phone call, he told his family that he was...