Kurdistan Human Rights Network

At least 120 truck drivers in Paveh, Kermanshah province, have stopped working since 5 December and have joined the nationwide general strikes by truck drivers across Iran. In the past few days, the Public Relations of the Road Maintenance and Transportation Department of Paveh threatened and pressured the truck drivers to force them to end the strike. Reportedly, they sent private text messages, or public messages...

Kurdish environmental activist Erfan Rashidi from Paveh area has been sentenced to one year in prison and issued a two-year travel ban on charges of "propaganda against the state”, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Rashidi is a member of Jiwa environmentalist organisation in Paveh. Judge Tari Verdi of Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Paveh had handed down the sentences...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Wednesday, February 06, a Kurdish civilian was arrested by security forces at his home in Paveh and transferred to an unknown location. During the arrest of this civilian, these forces also searched his house and seized a number of his personal belongings. There is no information about the charge and whereabouts of this detained civilian. It should...

Only a few days after the Pomegranate Festival in Hawraman (Oraman) was criticised by Imam of Paveh Friday Prayer and websites affiliated with the conservatives, this festival was cancelled in Biangan region of the Paveh city due to the pressures of the security agencies. In this regard, a resident of the Biangan of Paveh told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the pomegranate festival...

A Kurdish citizen was killed during the conflict between the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) forces and Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (PDKI) near the city of Paveh. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that, on Monday, Oct 12, 2018, IRGC forces surrounded the Bimiri promenade in Paveh on the pretext of facing a team of Peshmergah of (PDKI) and...

Erfan Rashidi, a prominent Environment Activist in Kermanshah Province, was released on bail. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the environment and labor Activists called as Erfan Rashid was released temporarily on July 12 after 8 days of arrest at the Intelligence Ministry's Detention Centre (known as the oil square) in the city of Kermanshah on a bail of 50 million Tomans. At...

Erfan Rashidi, an Environment and labor Activists, was arrested last night by the security forces and transferred to an unknown location in Paveh. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that at 1:30 PM on July 05, security forces have raided the house of "Erfan Rashidi" (a members of the Environment association of "Zhiva" in Paveh) without a judicial order and confiscated...