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...

An Iranian court has convicted civilians Fereshteh Hosseini, Hossein Ahmadi, Kazem Mam-Esmaeil and Younes Mahmudzadeh to prison terms on charges of "acting against national security" and "propaganda against the state". According to the verdict, Hosseini was sentenced to eight months in jail on charges of "propaganda against the state". Ahmadi was sentenced to three years in jail, Mam-Esmaeil to one year and Mahmudzadeh to three years...

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 in Iran's northwestern Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province, detained four Kurdish civilians identified as Aboubakr Mam-Esmaeil, Kazem Mam-Esmaeil, Kamil Mam-Esmaeil and Jamal Alavi in the past few days. The detained civilians were then taken to undisclosed locations. On 21 August, the security forces raided civilian Aboubakr Mam-Esmaeil's house in the Qezeljeh village of Mahabad. They searched the house, confiscated some of his family's belongings and...