Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish civil rights activist Farzad Samani has been temporarily released from Orumiyeh Central Prison after 13 months of temporary detention. The activist was released on 12 February on two billion Tomans – 80,000 USD – bail. Two days earlier, on 10 February, Sakar Eini, a Kurdish civil rights activist, who was arrested along with Samani and Mohammad Houshangi, was also released on bail. The Intelligence Organisation of...

Kurdish civil rights activist Sakar Eini has been released from Orumiyeh Central Prison on 10 February, after a year of temporary detention. He has reportedly been released on bail of 2 billion Tomans – nearly 80,000 USD. The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested Eini in Iran's northern Karaj on 9 January 2021 during a wave of arrests of Kurdish activists and...

The Islamic Revolutionary Court in northwestern Iran's Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province, continues to prolong the examination of the court cases of Kurdish activists Farzad Samani, Sakar Eini, and Mohammad Houshangi, one year after their arrests. The activists are still being held in temporary detention in Orumiyeh Central Prison, accused of "armed insurrection" (baghi). Farough Samani, Farzad Samani's brother, spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)...

Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province, continues to prolong the review of the case of Kurdish activists Farzad Samani, Sakar Eini, and Mohammad Houshangi. The activists, who were arrested nine months ago, are accused of “armed insurrection” (baghi). The Mahabad court presided over by Judge Javad Gholami is yet to review their case despite the appeals of their families. Sources close...

Kurdish civil rights activist Sakar Eini has contracted Covid-19 and has been taken to a cell in the safe ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison on 14 June. Eini was transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison on 1 June after being held in the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for nearly five months. A source close to the activist’s family...

Kurdish activists Viyan Mohammadi, Farzad Samani, and Sakar Eini have been transferred from the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) IN Orumiyeh to the quarantine ward of the city's central prison. There is no information on the situation of Mohammad Houshangi, who was held in the same place with the three activists. Farouq Samani, Farzad Samani's brother, spoke...

Photo from left to right; Farzad Samani, Sakar Eini, Mohammad Houshangi, Viyan Mohammadi The third investigation branch of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Mahabad has ordered today the extension of the temporary detentions of four Kurdish activists Viyan Mohammadi, Farzad Samani, Sakar Eini, and Mohammad Houshangi, who were arrested by IRGC forces in Tehran in the past months. While Viyan Mohammadi’s detention is being...

The Mahabad Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s office has extended the temporary detention of two Kurdish activists Farzad Samani and Sakar Eini for the fourth time to press them to make forced confessions, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The two activists from Mahabad were arrested in Tehran on 9 January 2021, in the first day of the mass arrests of Kurdish activists and...