Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A session was held at the Second Investigation Branch of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, where Kurdish civil rights activists Fatemeh Zand-Karimi, Zara Mohammadi, Sohrab Jalali, Mokhtar Asadi, Kamal Fakourian, Jamil Amini, and Jamal Asadi were formally charged. The activists were later released on bail. The Ministry of Intelligence reportedly pressured the judiciary to prosecute these activists following a demonstration...

Teachers' union activist Mokhtar Asadi was arrested by security forces in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 19 August after being summoned by the Cyber Police. Security forces raided Asadi's family home in Sanandaj on 18 August without a warrant and searched the premises, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Asadi was not at home at the time of the raid, but was later summoned by...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Mokhtar Asadi, a member of the Kurdistan Teacher Association was detained on Thursday, February 14 and taken to an unknown location several hours after a protest gathering in front of the Kurdistan Provincial Education and Training Office in Sanandaj. According to a reliable source, the activist was returning home with his family wehn arrested and he...

Mokhtar Asadi, a member of the Kurdish Teachers' Association, was released after serving one year in Evin prison. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Monday, July 8, Mokhtar Asadi (a member of the Kurdish Teachers Association) was released from Tehran's Evin Prison after serving one year in prison during which he was deprived of the right to temporally leave or conditional...