Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish civilians detained without judicial order in home raids

Kurdish civilians Mostafa Zaher-Zohour and Hamed Amini were recently arrested by security forces in separate incidents in the cities of Sanandaj and Marivan in Kurdistan Province and were taken to undisclosed locations. Zaher-Zohour, a civil rights activist and mountaineer from Sanandaj, was arrested on 13 February when security forces raided his family home without a court order. Similarly, on 14 February, security forces raided the home...

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