Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran has released three Kurdish activists on bail while 10 more activists, who are held in prison, are also expected to be released due to having been granted bail, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). These activists are among more than 100 people that had been detained during the recent mass arrests of Kurdish activists and civilians by the Iranian government, which started...

Public prosecutor’s offices in several cities of Iran have extended the detention period of at least 25 Kurdish activists taken into custody in the continued wave of arrests launched on 9 January. One month after the start of a new wave of arrests of Kurdish activists, the families of a number of detainees told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the detentions of the...

In the past few days, security forces have arrested at least seven Kurdish civil and cultural activists in Kangavar, Kermanshah, and Koohdasht. There is no information available on the fate of several of them. An anonymous source, who did not want to be identified for security reasons, has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that on July 05, security forces had attacked the houses of...

In the past few days, four Kurdish civil activists were arrested by security forces in one of the villages of Gilan-e Gharb in Kermanshah Province and transferred to an unknown location. ”On Tuesday, Dec 19, 2017, the intelligence forces of the Gilan-e-Gharb, entered the home of these civil activists in the village of Gholagholi, and arrested them while confiscating a number of personal belongings and...