Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Mohsen Esfandiari-Tabar and Lotfollah Parviz, two Kurdish civil rights activists from Gilan-e-Gharb, Kermanshah Province, have been provisionally released on bail after being detained for several weeks, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Esfandiari-Tabar, a 38-year-old navy lieutenant colonel, was released on bail of 10 billion rials (nearly 20,000 USD), while Parviz, a 48-year-old teacher, was released on a 20-billion-rials bail (40,000 USD) on...

Six of the eight civil rights activists from Gilan-e Gharb, Kermanshah Province, arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in recent weeks, have been temporarily released on bail, while two remain in custody. Arash Olfati, Maria Khani, Jahangir Azadi, Hamidreza Rahimian, Mostafa Rostami were released on 26 and 27 August, while Salman Parvan, a disabled civil rights activist, was released...

At least eight Kurdish civilians and civil rights activists from Gilan-e-Gharb, Kermanshah Province, have been arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in recent weeks, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The detainees, identified as Mohsen Esfandiari-Tabar, Arash Olfati, Maria Khani, Jahangir Azadi, Lotfollah Parviz, Hamidreza Rahimian, Salman Parhan, and Mostafa Rostami, were arrested in various locations including...