Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The body of Mehdi Sadeghi, a former Kurdish political prisoner who died under suspicious circumstances, was found in Tehran's Tarebar Square on 1 July. The day before, Sadeghi posted a video on

Civilian Mehdi Sadeghi, who was arrested by security forces about three weeks ago for the second time in the past few months, remains in a temporary detention centre in Ilam, in a state of

The Branch 103 of the Criminal Court of Ilam, in western Iran, has sentenced Kurdish civilian Mehdi Sadeghi to six months in prison, 74 lashes, and a two-year ban on leaving the country on charges of