Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, temporarily released four Kurdistan-Divandarreh Teachers' Union members, named Omid Shah-Mohammadi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh and Hiva Ghoreishi after 76 days on 30 August. The four activists were released on a bail of one and a half billion Iranian Tomans – nearly 47,000 USD – each. Last week, the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Sanandaj extended the temporary...

The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, has extended the temporary detention of four members of the Kurdistan-Divandarreh Teachers' Union for ten more days. The activists Omid Shah-Mohammadi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh and Hiva Ghoreishi were arrested by security forces in Divandarreh, Kurdistan province, on 15 June. In the past few days, the families of the activists went to the Public and Revolutionary...

The temporary detention of four members of the Kurdistan-Divandarreh Teachers' Union named Omid Shah-Mohammadi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh, and Hiva Ghoreishi, was extended on 3 August for another month. These Kurdish teachers are still kept in the solitary cell of the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, without the right to have a lawyer or family visits. The Coordinating Council of...

Some four members of the Kurdistan-Divandarreh Teachers' Union, named Omid Shah-Mohammadi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh, and Hiva Ghoreishi, are still held in the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province. They are denied the right to have a lawyer or receive family visits. Security forces arrested these teachers on 15 June during a protest rally of teachers in front of the Ministry...

Some seven detained teachers' union activists named Shaban Mohammadi, Masoud Nikkhah, Eskandar Lotfi, Omid Shah-Mohammadi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh, and Hiva Ghoreishi are still held in custody in Tehran's Evin Prison and the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province. Security forces had previously arrested the activists in the cities of Marivan and Divandarreh in Kurdistan province. On 5 July, Lotfi, the...