Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been harassing Kurdish civilians in the past week in the mountainous areas of Salmas in West Azarbaijan province, such as Saray Chichak, Khadrasheh, and Sarhelan, where livestock farmers of the surrounding villages live. In addition, since 7 July, following the clashes between the IRGC forces and members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) near the village...

Some eight Kurdish civilians have been held for alleged "espionage for Mossad" by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh since November 2021. The names of these civilians are Vafa Hanareh, Kamran Hanareh, Aran Omari, Ashkan Osmannezhad, Rahman Parhazou, Fakhreddin Dudkanlou, Hassan Omarpour, and Amir Moshtagh. Vafa Henareh is still being held in one of the security detention centres in Orumiyeh....

The family of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) who was detained by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seven months ago, gathered in front of the office of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, to inquire about his condition on 21 February. Feqhi had been arrested in a village of Bukan, West Azerbaijan province,...

Iranian security forces have raided the office of the Bashur Publication and the house of its director Mohammad Moradi Nassari in the western province of Ilam on 7 February. The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officers searched Nassari's office and confiscated some of his personal belongings, including his cell phone and computer. Simultaneously, officers of this military-security institution searched Nasseri's house without...

Officials at the al-Mahdi base of Iran's Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, have told the family of the detained member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), Edris Feqhi, that they were unaware of his situation. On 28 September, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) published a report saying the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had...

The situation and detention location of Kurdish civilian Mohammad Khaledi and his 16-year-old son, Ahmad Khaledi, remain unknown about 50 days after being arrested. In early October, the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) raided the civilians' home in the village of Segrik in Chaldoran, West Azerbaijan province, and took them to an undisclosed location. Their family has repeatedly appealed to the security...

There has been an increase since 26 September in the number of prisoners of conscience taken from Orumiyeh Central Prison to IRGC’s security detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province. Recently, Kurdish political prisoner Nayeb Askari has been returned from the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to Orumiyeh Central Prison. On 11 October, he was taken from the...

About a month after the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested Kurdish civilians Mohammad Khaledi and his son Ahmad Khaledi, their situation and whereabouts still remain unknown. In early October, the IRGC intelligence forces arrested the two civilians in the village of Segrik in Chaldoran, West Azerbaijan province, and took them to an undisclosed location. The father and son, 16, have been...

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has prepared this report to draw the attention of international human rights organisations to the situation of secret detention centres of two security agencies, the Ministry of Intelligence and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in Iranian Kurdistan. The report briefly addresses the location of these secret detention centres and the detention conditions, interrogation, and...