Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, has sentenced a Kurdish civil rights activist named Kazhal Nasri to five years of suspended imprisonment. The court charged Nasri with "acting against national security" through "membership" of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI). The activist was notified of the verdict in the past weeks. The intelligence ministry detained Nasri on 12 December 2021 at...

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence in the northwestern Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, temporarily released the civil rights activist Kazhal Nasri on 10 January. The activist was released on an electronic tag and was indefinitely barred from travelling to her village. She was released on a bail of 100 million Iranian Tomans – nearly 4,000 USD. Reportedly, security interrogators agreed to her temporary release two days after her mother went...

Iranian security forces arrested Kurdish civil rights activists Kazhal Nasri and Farhang Eyvazi in Sanandaj on 12 December. The detentions are part of the recent wave of arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists in northwestern Kurdistan province. Reportedly, forces of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj searched the houses of the activists and confiscated their personal belongings during their arrests. They were then taken to the detention...