Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish woman political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh attempted to commit suicide after being returned from the detention facility of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, to the city prison on 30 October. On 23 October, Mashhad prison authorities sent Parvaneh and three other prisoners named Fatehemh Feyz, Monireh Nourikia and Shahla (last name unknown) to the detention centre...

A woman prisoner named Mozhgan Tanha lost her life on 4 September due to the delay of the medical staff of the women's prison in Mashhad, Iran's northeastern Razavi Khorasan province, in sending her to a hospital outside the prison. The prisoner was taken to the prison infirmary due to losing consciousness. Tanha, 42, was reportedly arrested on drug-related charges and taken to the women's prison...

A woman prisoner named Sahar F. and her 12-year-old daughter, Tina F. were tied to beds in the infirmary of Mashhad prison for 24 hours as a "punishment" by order of the prison authorities. Reportedly, the "punishment" came after the mother and daughter had a verbal argument with prison officers. The two civilians from Tehran were arrested at the Mashhad bus terminal on 18 July due...

Kurdish female political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh has been taken to a security office on the pretext of being transferred to a medical facility at 2300 local time on 24 February, but has been relocated to an unknown place, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). On 14 December 2020, Parvaneh was transferred from the prison of Quchan, where her family resides, to the female...

Kurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh was transferred from Quchan Prison to the Mashhad Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office for unknown reasons, after which she was transferred to the quarantine ward of Mashhad prison. At 10 pm on December 14, this political prisoner was transferred from Quchan Prison to a security detention centre in Mashhad for unknown reasons, and this morning she was transferred to this prison's...