Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The central selection board of the department of education in Kurdistan province, linked to the intelligence organisation, has dismissed Mohammad Mansouri, a Kurdish member of a Quran School, from his teaching job in the Naysar Vocational School in Sanandaj, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network. A selection procedure – known as “Gozinesh” – is usually carried out for state officials and employees in...

In recent days, Abdolkarim Farhadi, Saeed Sajjadi and Saadi Valdbeigi, three members of the Quran school in the city of Paveh, Kermanshah Province, have been summoned to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) by a written summons and interrogated for several hours. The Quran School stated in its news release that "the IRGC of the Paveh interrogated "Kakeh Abdolkarim Farhadi, Kakeh Saeed Sajjadi and Kakeh...

According to the official website of the Quran School, security forces in the city of Mahabad arrested Saeed Rashidi and Mohammad Ali Lashkari, two members of the Quran School, on May 10 and transferred them to an unknown location. "At 9 am, police officers from Mahabad Police Station No. 11 summoned Saeed under the pretext that he has a plaintiff. An hour later, security officers took him...