Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Rasoul Galehban, a Kurdish journalist and manager of the Urmiye 24 news outlet, was summoned and arrested by the Cyber Police in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, on 7 April. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Galehban was arrested after the Orumiyeh Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office filed a complaint regarding the city's Newroz (also known as Nowruz in Persian) celebrations. The specific charges...

The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) took the detained reporter of Kurdpress News Agency in Qorveh named Ziba Omidifar to the Kowsar Hospital in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 15 December after torturing her for a week. The IRGC intelligence agency arrested Omidifar a week earlier and took her to the detention centre of the security institution in Sanandaj. Reportedly, the Kurdish journalist...

The interrogation session of the Kurdish journalist Ejlal Ghavami was carried out at Branch 5 of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 11 September. Ghavami is accused of "propaganda against the state". Reportedly, the Prosecutor's Office cited some of the journalist's writings and his signature on several statements as examples leading to this accusation. After the investigation session, Ghavami was temporarily released...

Kurdish journalist and writer Iraj Ebadi has been released on bail yesterday evening after four days in detention. Security forces arrested Ebadi at his home in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 7 November. They searched the journalist’s house and confiscated some of his personal belongings. Ebadi, 73, is the owner and editor of the weekly Lutkah and a retired writer and teacher. Security agencies in Sanandaj had summoned him...

Alireza Sepahi Laine, a well-known Kurdish journalist and poet of Northern Khorasan who was arrested on Tuesday, Nov 28, 2017, has gone on a dry food hunger strike due to his illegal arrest. A Kurdish activist in North Khorasan confirmed Sepahi Laine’s hunger strike and told Kurdistan Human Rights network (KHRN) that "Mr Sepahi Laine has started his dry food hunger strike yesterday December 06...

A Kurdish journalist from Sanandaj, who was arrested by security forces earlier this week, has been released on bail while another detained journalist has been transferred from the Intelligent Detention Centre of the Saqez to Saqez prison. “Farhad Hadi, a journalist and editor of Dangi Kurdistan Weekly who was arrested on Sunday, Oct 8, 2017, at his workplace by the security forces, was released two...