Kurdistan Human Rights Network

During the past months two Kurdish students named Qader Abdullazade and Mohammad Razmavar were sentenced to five and one year in prison respectively by the branch two of Orumiyeh's Revolutionary Court on charges of crimes against the national security,a Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) source said. The source said that “ Muhammad Razmavar is from the city of Maku and he is a student at...

The Islamic Revolutionary Court in the city of Saqqez has sentenced Kurdish trade unionist Osman Esmaeli to one year in prison on charges of “propaganda” against national interests. "On 28 April 2015, a few days before International Workers' Day, Osman Esmaeli, a worker and atrade unionist, was arrested by Iranian security forces at his workplace in Saqqez. He was interrogated for 12 days at the...