Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Families of recently arrested activists of Sanandaj, Kamyaran and Marivan held a protest gathering in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) building in Sanandaj on Saturday morning February 24 and called for the immediate release of these people. “This gathering was led by a group of women from the families of the detainees. The crowd demanded the authorities...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Four Kurdish Political prisoners, Mehrdad Sabouri, Aram Mohammadi, Omid Ahmadi and Shaho Sadeghi, were released from Kamyaran prison. According to KHRN, Mehrdad Sabouri and Omid Ahmadi were released on Thursday, February 11 upon the leniency shown by the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the occasion of the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. They had served one-third of their...

Sirwan Ghorbani, a member of the Central Council of National Unity Party in Kurdistan and environmental activist, was arrested by security forces in his home following the arrest of civil activists in Kamyaran and Sanandaj. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that at 9 AM, Tuesday, February 12, security forces in Kamyaran blocked the alley leading to Sirwan Ghorbani’s home while inspecting all...

The arrest warrants for ten Kurdish political and civil rights activists 'Hadi Kamangar, Fazel Qeitisi, Reza Asadi, Farhad Mohammadi, Rashed Montazeri, Hossein Kamangar, Isa Feizi, Amanj Ghorbani, Zanyar Zemiran and Bakhtiar Kamangar' were extended over the past few days. They have also been severely under pressure for making TV confessions. These civilians were arrested by security forces earlier between January 01 and 06. An informed...

Ten detained Iranian Kurdish activists are under pressure to make false confessions, with influential imams and officials demanding their immediate execution. Recent changes to the administrators and security apparatus of Iran’s Kurdestan province and other Kurdish populated regions are the main factors behind the alarming security measures used to crack down on Kurdish activists. The arrests were made following militarisation of Kurdish cities, towns and villages in Iran, where Kurdish...

Following the arrest of ten political and civil activists affiliated with the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party, a number of current and former members from Kamyaran and Sanandaj were summoned to the Intelligence Office in Sanandaj and interrogated for several hours. Moreover, spouses of three previously arrested persons, who were also former members of the women's committee of the Kurdistan branch of the...

Following the recent arrest of Environmental activists in Kamyaran, another Kurdish activist, Amanj Ghorbani was arrested at his workplace, the Department of Environment. So far, 8 people have been detained in Kamyaran. Farhad Mohammadi, a lawyer, Fazel Qiatassi, Reza Asadi and Hadi Kamangar, secretary and members of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party respectively, were each detained on January 01 and 02. Isa...

Iranian security forces have attacked the shop of a civilian in Kamyaran, Bakhtiar Kamangar, beaten and arrested him. He has been transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that security forces have attacked the shop of Bakhtiar Kamangar in Imam Shafi'i Kamyar Square of Kamyaran, beaten and arrested him at noon on January 6,...

Iran security forces arrested and Beat an environment activist, Isa Feizi in Kamyaran, and transferred him to an unknown location. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that security forces attacked the shop of Isa Faizi, the environmental activist and a former member of the Kurdish branch of the National Unity Party in Kamyaran, beat and arrested him on Saturday, Jan 5. The activist...