Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish activist Mahvash Tavassoli was recently placed under a 21-month house arrest, following her involvement in the anti-government uprising of Women Life Freedom in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, in 2022. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that on 27 August 2023, the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Piranshahr sentenced Tavassoli to 21 months' imprisonment on charges of "assembly and collusion against national security", to...

The Islamic Revolutionary Court in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, has sentenced Mahvash Tavassoli and her husband, Jotyar Ashrafzadeh, who were arrested during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in Piranshahr last year and subsequently released on bail. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Tavassoli was sentenced to two years' probation with electronic monitoring for "propaganda against the state". Ashrafzadeh has been sentenced to three...