Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Two Kurdish men, Ghader Kharamanfar and Jalal Sadafi, remain in prolonged detention without legal representation or family visits following their arrest by the Ministry of Intelligence in December. Both men are being held in solitary confinement at the Ministry’s detention facility in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Hajar Amiya, Kharamanfar’s wife, and Sirwan Shawleh, Sadafi’s wife, have been...

In a continuation of the recent crackdown on Kurdish civilians and activists in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has arrested seven people without warrants in recent days. According to information received by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), on 14 December, IRGC agents raided the homes of Siamand Seyyed-Ahmadi, Zanyar Seyyed-Ahmadi, Aram Mabzouleh, and Yousef Ghal...