Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Fifteen Kurdish teacher union activists have been summoned to appear before Branch 109 of the Second Criminal Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, on charges of “disturbing public order and

Eight Kurdish activists and civilians have been temporarily released on bail in recent days from the Juvenile Detention Centre of Sanandaj and Saqqez prison in Kurdistan Province, and Evin Prison in

The intelligence service of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh and Salmas, the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, have in the past months summoned the families of

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

The University of Tabriz in northwestern Iran has expelled Kurdish doctoral student Soran Daneshvar at the request of the Ministry of Intelligence. Daneshvar is a Kurdish activist who began his

The situation and whereabouts of the arrested Kurdish environmental activist Navid Kohnehpoushi remain unknown after 45 days in detention. Despite repeated follow-ups by the activist's family in

Kurdish woman political activist Shahnaz Sadeghifar, who was released on bail from prison in April after 20 months in detention, has been rearrested. The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence in

The Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, has detained Madeh Fathi, a Kurdish civil rights activist and former member of the board of directors of the Green Society of Kurdistan,

An Iranian prosecutor’s office has extended the temporary detentions of two Kurdish activists for the third time while another activist has been transferred from the IRGC detention centre to