Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Mohammad Moradi has been released from Naqadeh Prison, northwestern Iran, on 12 March, on a heavy bail of 8 billion Tomans – nearly 320,000 USD. In late February, Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province, sentenced Moradi to 15 years of life in exile in the city of Chavarzaq in Zanjan Province, northwestern Iran. It charged the political...

The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad, northwestern Iran, has issued a bail of 8 billion Tomans, nearly 320,000 USD, for the release of the Kurdish political prisoner Mohammad Moradi. This decision by Branch 1 of the court on 27 February could lead to the temporary release of Moradi who has been in detention since April 2018. In addition, the trial of the Kurdish civilian on charges...

Iranian security forces detained the mother of Kurdish woman political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian at her home in Maku, West Azerbaijan province, for several hours on 21 February. The Ministry of Intelligence in Maku interrogated and threatened Gozal Hajizadeh over her statements calling on the international community to pressure Iran to release her daughter. Hajizadeh was released after several hours. On 20 February, a video of Hajizadeh, in...

Kurdish political prisoner Reza Mollazadeh has been released from Borazjan Prison, in Iran's southwestern province of Bushehr, on 13 February. Mollazadeh served 10 years and six months of his 16-year prison sentence, during which he was deprived of his right to temporary leave and parole. His release came following the approval of the country's Amnesty Commission. In the summer of 2011, the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic...

Kurdish woman political prisoner Khadijeh Mehdipour was beaten by three prisoners of ordinary crimes in Iran's western Ilam province on 10 February. Prison officials had incited these prisoners to attack Mehdipour on the pretext that she "insulted" the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Qasem Soleimani, the former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force. Reportedly, while watching the news on...

An Iranian court has sentenced Kurdish political prisoner Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini to living eight years in internal exile in the Heris district of the northwestern province of East Azerbaijan after his release. Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad, in West Azerbaijan province, charged him with "enmity against God" (moharebeh) through membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI). The same court had...

An Iranian court has released on parole Kurdish woman political prisoner Shahnaz Sadeghifar on 27 January. Sadeghifar's release from Orumiyeh Central Prison, in the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, came after Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh approved her appeal for release on parole. In March 2021, the same court, headed by Judge Ali Sheikhlou, had sentenced the political prisoner to five years...

Kurdish political prisoner Shaker Baghi has been sent on temporary leave for medical treatment from Kashmar Prison in Iran's northeastern Khorasan-e Razavi province. He has been sent on leave in the 14th year of his imprisonment on a two billion Iranian Tomans – nearly 80,000 USD – bail. Baghi's temporary release came after the approval of Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj in...

Kurdish political prisoner Hossein Kamangar was temporarily released from Sanandaj Central Prison in Iran's northwestern Kurdistan province on 19 January. He has been released on a bail of one billion Iranian Tomans – nearly 40,000 USD. Kamangar was detained in January 2019 during the wave of widespread arrests of civil rights activists and members of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party in the cities...