Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Seven Kurdish civilians from Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, have been provisionally released on bail from prisons in Mahabad and Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, while six others remain in custody in Mahabad Prison. Nazanin Elyasi, Shwana (Osman) Jahanifar, Rahman Dana, Yousef Ghal, Abdollah Houshmand, Zanyar Seyyed-Ahmadi, and Hawre Ghoveh were released on bail of 30 billion rials (nearly 30,000 USD) each in recent days, while Ghader...

Security forces arrested at least 38 Kurdish civilians and activists in the second half of December, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On 15 December, the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) simultaneously arrested Kurdish civilians Hemin Palani, Pouya Deljou, Aryam Ahmadi, Payam Ranjbar, Kaveh Sohrabi, Ayman Safaei, Omid Salehi, Yousef Ranjbar and Khaled Kamari without warrants at their family...

Security forces have arrested at least seven Kurdish civilians in Divandarreh and Marivan, Kurdistan Province, and Gilan-e Gharb, Kermanshah Province, in recent days, continuing the recent wave of arrests targeting Kurdish civilians and activists. On 19 September, security forces arrested Khalil Asghari without a warrant at his workplace in Divandarreh. On 17 September, Salah Fathi was arrested in the village of Rashidabad, and Mani Mohammadi in...

Kurdish civilian Ali Zolfi was sent to prison yesterday in Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, to serve a sentence of four months and 10 days in jail. In July, Branch 101 of the Criminal Court of Bukan sentenced Zolfi on charges of “propaganda against the state”. On 19 January, security forces arrested the Kurdish civilian at his hometown Bukan. They then transferred him to the detention centre of...