Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran has released on bail Kurdish activists Khabat Mafakheri and Salah Osmani today, 23 August. Security forces arrested Mafakheri on 10 August and Osmani on 18 August. Reportedly, the activists have been charged with "acting against national security" through “collaborating with Kurdish opposition parties”. The Ministry of Intelligence detained the environmental activist Khabat Mafakheri for several days in a detention centre in Sanandaj. He was later transferred...

Iranian Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj has released Madeh Fathi, the detained Kurdish civil rights activist and former member of the board of directors of the Green Society of Kurdistan, on 10 August. On the same day, the ministry forces have arrested Khabat Mafakheri, a member of the organisation, and have taken him to an undisclosed location. The intelligence ministry had arrested Madeh Fathi on 5...