Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoners Vahid Chavaran, Nasser Rezaei, and Mohammad Hassan Hasseli, who were sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment in exile following their arrest during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising, have been secretly transferred to remote prisons across Iran. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that on 4 May, Chavaran, Rezaei and Hasseli were transferred from Ilam Central Prison to Zahedan Prison in...

Detained Kurdish civilians Vahid Chavaran, Mohammad Hossein Haaseli, and Nasser Rezaei sewed their lips together in the pre-trial detention centre of Ilam Prison, one day after starting a hunger strike. The Kurdish civilians, along with Bakhtiar Mohammadzadeh, a detained civilian from Darreh Shahr in Ilam Province, began their hunger strike on 3 September in protest at their continued detention. Today, in response to the authorities' neglect...

Detained Kurdish civilians Nasser Rezaei and Mohammad Daniali went on hunger strike on 9 June in protest at their continued detention and torture in the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Ilam, Ilam province. Efforts by the families to find out the situation of the detainees were unsuccessful. Security forces arrested Rezaei, from Sarab Bagh in Ilam province, at the Ahvaz bus terminal in Khuzestan province...

Iranian security forces arrested Kurdish civilian Nasser Rezaei on 21 May at the bus terminal of Ahvaz, Khuzestan province. After his arrest, the civilian was taken to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Dehloran, Ilam province. He was transferred to the Dehloran court on 22 May with signs of torture on his body and returned to the detention centre after being charged, the Kurdistan Human...