Kurdistan Human Rights Network

As the anniversary of the Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising approaches, there have been reports of significant deployments of special police forces and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) units in Orumiyeh, Bukan, Mahabad, Saqqez, Divandarreh, Sanandaj, Marivan, Kamyaran, Javanrud, Kermanshah, Eslamabad-e Gharb, Ilam and Abdanan. According to information gathered by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), in recent days, thousands of anti-insurgency personnel from police forces...

Amjad Amini, the father of Jina Mahsa Amini, has been summoned and interrogated by the Ministry of Intelligence in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, four times in the past two weeks. A relative of the Amini family revealed that the most recent summons was on 11 September, during which Mr Amini was questioned for one hour. During the interrogation, the relative told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN),...

The parents of Jina Mahsa Amini have announced that they will commemorate the first anniversary of their daughter's death at her grave in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. In a statement posted on the Instagram account of Jina Mahsa Amini's father, Amjad Amini, Mojgan Eftakhari and Amjad Amini addressed their "esteemed compatriots" and "dear sisters and brothers" to announce the details of the event. The Amini family said...

Kurdish journalist Nazila Maroofian has revealed in a phone call from Tehran's Evin prison that she was sexually assaulted and physically beaten by security forces during her latest arrest, the fourth since last year's anti-government protests. Maroofian, who was arrested on 30 August during a violent raid by security forces on her home in Tehran, said in an audio recording of a phone call that...

Iranian security forces today arrested Jina Mahsa Amini's uncle Safa Aeli in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province and took him to an undisclosed location, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Aeli was arrested without a court warrant at 13:00 local time as he was returning home when security forces raided his house. During the search, the forces confiscated some of his personal belongings and identification documents...

The first court session of Saleh Nikbakht, the lawyer representing the family of Jina Mahsa Amini, took place on 29 August in Branch 28 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran on charges of "propaganda activities against the state". Judge Amouzad asked Nikbakht questions about a formal complaint filed by the Ministry of Intelligence, supported by an indictment issued by the Tehran Public and Revolutionary...

As the anniversary of the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini by the government and the beginning of the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising approaches, the security institutions of the Islamic Republic of Iran are carrying out widespread arrests of civilians, activists and the families of those who lost their lives in the uprising throughout Iran, particularly in Kurdish regions. At the same time, many shopkeepers and...

The trial of Saleh Nikbakht, the lawyer representing the family of Jina Mahsa Amini, which was scheduled to take place on 1 August and postponed for administrative reasons, has been rescheduled for 29 August at Branch 28 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. An informed source who spoke to the KHRN said that "Mr Nikbakht is...

The trial of Saleh Nikbakht, the lawyer representing the family of Jina Mahsa Amini, which was scheduled to take place today, has been postponed due to administrative issues. Nikbakht is facing charges of "propaganda against the Islamic Republic system" for speaking out against the opinion of the Forensic Medicine Commission regarding Amini's death in an interview with foreign media and Etemad newspaper. Amini died in police...