Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish civilian Mohammad Sharif Salem  was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of "cooperation with one of the Kurdish opposition parties,” a source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Mohammad Sharif Salem was reportedly arrested by security forces on 10 September and interrogated at the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Orumiyeh for four days. The hearing of Mohammad Sharif Salem from Dezaj village of Orumiyeh was held at branch...

 Four Kurdish civilians of Sanandaj were each sentenced to one year in prison by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on October 23. The court charged Yasin Karimi, Hemen Mohammadi, Yadegar Jafari and Pouria Naseri with "propaganda against the state in favour of one of the Kurdish opposition parties.”  The four civilians were arrested on July 13 2019, the anniversary...

Two Iranian Azerbaijani civilians from Orumiyeh have been sentenced to 16 years in prison by the Branch 2 of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court on charges of membership in the banned opposition People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) and propaganda against the state, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The two civilians Ebrahim Khalili Hamedani and Salar Khalili Hamedan began to officially serve the...

“Kamran Kamani and Saber Kamani”, two Kurdish civilians from Anbeh village of Orumiyeh, were each sentenced to five years of imprisonment by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh on the charges of cooperation with one of the Kurdish opposition parties. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that the trial of these two Kurdish civilians was held on Sept 3, 2019 at...

Iran Rahpeykar, an activist from Mariwan who was arrested by security forces in Sanandaj on May 14, 2019, has been sentenced to 3 years in prison on charges of "acting against national security" due to collaboration with one of the Kurdish opposition parties. Vali Nasri, a civilian from Sanandaj who was arrested in March and released on a bail after 10 days, was also sentenced...