Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Detained Kurdish labour activists Sedigh Reyhani and Rebwar Abdollahi were today provisionally released from Sanandaj Central Prison on bail of 3 billion and 5 billion rials, respectively. The activists were transferred to the prison's quarantine ward last night after their interrogation at the Ministry of Intelligence's detention centre in the city ended. Reyhani and Abdollahi were arrested without a court order by security forces in Sanandaj...

Iranian security forces arrested Kurdish labour activist Rebwar Abdollahi as he left his home in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 12 July and took him to an undisclosed location. There is also no information on the fate of Sedigh Reyhani, a labour activist who was arrested by police in Sanandaj on 4 July on the pretext of a private complaint and transferred to the city's central...

Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, has sentenced a Kurdish labour activist named Rebwar Abdollahi to two years of suspended imprisonment. The court charged the activist with "propaganda against the state". He was officially notified of the verdict on 26 July. Abdollahi's court hearing was held on 27 June on the two charges of "propaganda against the state" and "acting against national...

Kurdish civilians Rebwar Abdollahi and Arash Mohammadi were temporarily released from Sanandaj Central Prison, in Kurdistan province, on 150 million Tomans – 6,000 USD – bail yesterday. The two civilians were transferred from the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj to the city's central prison in the past few days after the end of their interrogation period. Security forces had arrested Mohammadi, a...

Iranian security forces arrested at least eight Kurdish civilians and activists in the past two days in the northwestern cities of Saqqez, Marivan, and Piranshahr. Zamaneh Ziviyeh, Meghdad Hassannezhad, Shaban Mohammadi, Rebwar Abdollahi, Morad Mamah-Rash, Ayoub Hadisi, Rahman Khedmatgozar, Ali Omarpour, and Faryad Shilan were detained and taken to an undisclosed location on 30-31 January. These individuals have been detained in some cases with beatings by...