Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran released on bail Kurdish environmental activists Jahangir Sagharnia and Khabat Khatial from Naqadeh Prison in West Azerbaijan province on 21 November. The activists were released on bail of 200 million Iranian Tomans – nearly 8,000 USD – after five days of detention. Security forces had arrested the two members of the Environmental Supporters Association in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan province, on 17 November. They were then taken...

Iranian security forces have arrested two environmental activists from Piranshahr in northwestern West Azerbaijan province on 17 November. Also, two other environmental activists detained in the past months remain in custody in the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province. Jahangir Sagharnia, a member of the Environmental Supporters Association in Piranshahr, was arrested by security forces on 17 November. Simultaneously, another member of...