Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Branch 101 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Kamyaran, in Iran's northwestern Kurdistan province, has sentenced a Kurdish Sunni cleric named Mohammad Mirza Rahmani and three Kurdish activists, Sirvan Ghorbani, Amanj Ghorbani, and Borhan Kamangar, to 91 days in prison each. The court issued the sentences under Article 500 of the Iranian Islamic Penal Code on charges of "propaganda in favour of groups opposed to...

Four Kurdish activists detained during the funeral of the executed Kurdish political prisoner Heydar Ghorbani have been released on bail in recent days. Security forces had detained Mohammad Mirza Rahmani, a Kurdish cleric, and civil rights activists Sirvan Ghorbani, Amanj Ghorbani, and Borhan Kamangar in Kamyaran, Kurdistan province. The activists were then taken to the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province. In...

Iranian security forces have arrested three more Kurdish activists in Kamyaran, Kurdistan province, in the past two days for attending executed Kurdish political prisoner Heydar Ghorbani's funeral. Mohammad Mirza Rahmani, who is a Sunni cleric, was detained on 22 December after being summoned to the office of the Ministry of Intelligence in Kamyaran. Civil rights activists Sirvan Ghorbani and Borhan Kamangar were detained on the streets...