Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Khaled Zamani remains behind bars in Yazd Central Prison despite being granted conditional release. Zamani, who has served more than half of his 30-year sentence, has been denied parole due to opposition from the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the prison classification council in Yazd, along with the supervising judge,...

Khaled Zamani, from Kamyaran, was sentenced to five years of suspended imprisonment several days ago on charges of "acting against national security through membership in a Kurdish opposition party" by the branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj, headed by Judge Saeedi, a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The civilian was arrested by security forces at his family home in...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Khaled Zamani and Mehdi Ghobadi, two civilians from Kamyaran, have been arrested by security forces and transferred to an unknown location during the past 2 days. A source in the Kamyaran has told KHRN that “security forces have raided the houses of a number of Kurdish civilians and arrested at least three of them last night.” According to this source, two...