Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish civilians Jalal Amini, Kazem Mam-Esmaeil, Hossein Ahmadi and Younes Mahmoudzadeh were taken to Bukan Prison in West Azerbaijan Province on 12 December to begin serving 30, 12, 26 and 30 month sentences respectively. In January, Branch 101 of the Bukan Criminal Court convicted the four prisoners of "action against national security" through membership of a Kurdish opposition party and "propaganda against the state". The court...

A detained Kurdish civilian named Jalal Amini was temporarily released from Bukan prison in West Azerbaijan province on 4 September with a bail of one billion Iranian Tomans – nearly 31,000 USD. In addition, the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Bukan extended the detentions of Kurdish civilians Hossein Ahmadi and Kazem Mam-Esmaeil in the past few days. These three civilians were transferred from a security...

Detained Kurdish civilians named Jalal Amini, Hossein Ahmadi and Kazem Mam-Esmaeil were transferred from a security detention centre in Orumiyeh to Bukan prison after their interrogation ended on 25 August. In addition, on 27 August, another detained civilian named Yousef Mam-Ghaderi was taken to the same prison from the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Orumiyeh. The Bukan court has issued a bail of one billion...

Security forces arrested today a Kurdish civilian named Jalal Amini on the Mirava road in Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, and took him to an undisclosed location. In the past few years, he was repeatedly summoned to the offices of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Intelligence and was interrogated for several hours. Security forces blocked the Mirava road...