Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Marivan: Activists remain in custody weeks after arrest

Civil rights and environmental activists Iraj Rahimzadeh and Rebwar Mahmoudi, who were detained by security forces in Marivan in Kurdistan province in the past few weeks, are still being held in custody. In a brief phone call with his family in recent days, Rahimzadeh said that security interrogators were pressuring him to make forced confessions. Security forces arrested Rahimzadeh at his family home in Marivan on...

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