Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been keeping in detention the Kurdish activist Mohammad Houshangi for five months. Until now, there has been no information available on his situation. Forces of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC had arrested Houshangi on 10 January in Tehran, during the wave of arrests of Kurdish activists at the beginning of the year. After arresting...

Kurdish activists Viyan Mohammadi, Farzad Samani, and Sakar Eini have been transferred from the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) IN Orumiyeh to the quarantine ward of the city's central prison. There is no information on the situation of Mohammad Houshangi, who was held in the same place with the three activists. Farouq Samani, Farzad Samani's brother, spoke...

Photo from left to right; Farzad Samani, Sakar Eini, Mohammad Houshangi, Viyan Mohammadi The third investigation branch of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Mahabad has ordered today the extension of the temporary detentions of four Kurdish activists Viyan Mohammadi, Farzad Samani, Sakar Eini, and Mohammad Houshangi, who were arrested by IRGC forces in Tehran in the past months. While Viyan Mohammadi’s detention is being...

A Kurdish civilian named Mohammad Houshangi, who has been arrested during the wave of arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists launched in January 2021, is still being held in temporary detention on the accusation of “membership in a Kurdish opposition group” and “propaganda against the state”, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Mohammad Houshangi, whose name had not previously been mentioned in the...