Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Security forces have arrested at least nine more Kurdish civilians in recent days as the authorities intensify their crackdown ahead of the second anniversary of the Women, Life, Freedom uprising. Kurdish civilian Rashed Advaei was arrested this morning without a warrant by security forces at his home in the village of Selin in Sarvabad, Kurdistan Province. On 8 September, security forces raided the home of Kurdish...

Hassan Amini, brother of Mohammad Amini, a protester killed during the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government uprising in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has been imprisoned in Sanandaj Central Prison to serve a six month and 15 day sentence. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Amini was arrested after being summoned to the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Sanandaj on 21 July. He was convicted...

The Criminal Court of Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, has sentenced Hassan Amini, the brother of Mohammad Amini, one of the victims of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" uprising in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, to six and a half years in prison and 40 lashes. Branch 101 of the Criminal Court of Two in Bukan handed down the verdict on 5 July, charging the civilian with "disturbing public...