Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish labour activists Mahmoud Salehi and Osman Esmaeili have been released today from Saqqez Prison, 25 days after being arrested. In late May, Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Saqqez sentenced Salehi and Esmaeili to three and six months in prison, respectively on charges of “propaganda against the state” over holding International Workers’ Day celebrations. The sentences were then, according to Article 38 of...

Labour activists Mahmoud Salehi and Osman Esmaeili, who were arrested on 16 May, have been sentenced by Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Saqqez to three and six months in prison respectively, on charges of “propaganda against the state” over holding International Workers' Day celebrations. The prison sentences have then been commuted to fine payments, based on the Iranian Islamic Penal Code. The trial...

The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Saqqez has referred the case of the prominent labour activists Mahmoud Salehi and Osman Esmaeili to the Islamic Revolutionary Court of the city, four days after the arrest of the activists. Salehi and Esmaeili were arrested in Saqqez on 16 May for their social media activities on International Workers’ Day and were accused of “propaganda against the state”. “Mahmoud...

Prominent labour activists Mahmoud Salehi and Osman Esmaeili, who were summoned last week to Branch 3 of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Saqqez, have been arrested after appearing in court and have been sent to the city's prison. Reportedly, after they were informed that they were being accused of “propaganda against the state”, the investigator issued a bail of 40 million Iranian Tomans...

New charges may be brought against the two Kurdish labour activists Mahmoud Salehi and Osman Ismaili following an indictment filed by the Saqqez Intelligence Office, Kurdistan province.  "I was summoned to the Branch 5 of the Saqqez Prosecutor's Office on May 4, by receiving a text message.  I referred to this branch after receiving the message. After studying the case, the judge told me that...

Three Labour activists from Saqqez were summoned by the Intelligence Unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on October 13 for participation in a rally against the Turkish Army's incursion into the north and east of Syria, known as Rojava.  The three labour activists Seyed Ali Hosseini, Mahmoud Salehi, and Osman Ismaili were summoned by the Intelligence Unit of IRGC, and the security...

The Kurdish activist known as Najibeh Salehzadeh, tied by the Revolutionary Court of Saqqez in March on charges of propaganda against the system through cyberspace (through interviews with foreign media abroad), was acquitted of the charges against her. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on April 22, Najibeh Salehzadeh, the wife of a prominent worker activist (Mahmoud Salehi), was acquitted of the...

The labour activist, Mahmoud Salehi was transferred to the general section of Imam Khomeini Hospital after five days in intensive care unit. This prisoner had been transferred to Imam Khomeini Hospital from Saqqez Prison on Nov 3, 2017, due to his heart problem. "On Thursday, November 09, my father was transferred from the heart section of the hospital to the general section as his health...

Mahmoud Salehi, a well-known labor activist, was arrested in front of the entrance to Saqqez Hospital and then transferred to the prison yesterday for serving his one-year prison sentence. “on Oct 28, 2017, Mahmoud Salehi, was arrested at Imam Khomeini hospital in Saqqez city when leaving the hospital after being treated with dialysis. He was transferred to the court where a new decree was...