Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Security forces detained Jabbar Dousti, a member of the Kurdistan-Marivan Teachers' Union, in Marivan, Iran's northwestern Kurdistan Province, on 7 June. They took him to an undisclosed location. Officers searched the activist's house at the time of his arrest. Dousti, who suffers from heart disease, was previously arrested on 31 January for his trade union activities. Currently, three other teachers' union activists named Shaban Mohammadi, Masoud Nikkhah,...

Iranian security forces arrested Jabbar Dousti, a retired teacher and a member of the Kurdistan-Marivan Teachers' Union, in Marivan, Kurdistan province, on 31 January. He has been arrested and taken to an undisclosed location as he was leaving his home to participate in a teachers' protest rally. A day earlier, security forces had arrested Shaban Mohammadi, another member of the Kurdistan-Marivan Teachers' Union, at his home. For...