Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish civil rights activist Kiumars Latifi has been taken back from Sanandaj Central Prison, northwestern Iran’s Kurdistan province, to the detention facility of the city's intelligence ministry on 10 April. Security forces arrested Latifi during a raid on his house in Sanandaj on 15 February and transferred him to the office of the Ministry of Intelligence in the city. He was then transferred to the quarantine...

Iranian security forces have arrested a Kurdish civil rights activist named Kiumars Latifi during a raid on his house in Sanandaj, Iran's northwestern province of Kurdistan, on 15 February. Reportedly, the activist was beaten and taken to an undisclosed location. Simultaneously, security forces also searched the house of the activist's sister, Arezou Latifi. She fainted and was taken to the hospital due to the psychological pressures caused...