Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Former political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh, who was detained by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on 4 April, has been transferred to Mashhad Central Prison. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that after her arrest, Parvaneh was taken to the detention facility of the IRGC's intelligence agency and then transferred to Mashhad Central Prison on 14 April after initial...

Kurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh was released under amnesty from Mashhad Central Prison on 11 February, while serving the fourth year of her seven-year prison sentence. In the past few days, some political prisoners were released without prior notice after a decree to grant amnesty and reduction of sentences was issued by Iranian authorities. "On Saturday, 11 February, prison officials and agents of the Intelligence Organisation...

Kurdish woman political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh attempted to commit suicide after being returned from the detention facility of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, to the city prison on 30 October. On 23 October, Mashhad prison authorities sent Parvaneh and three other prisoners named Fatehemh Feyz, Monireh Nourikia and Shahla (last name unknown) to the detention centre...

Kurdish political prisoners Mozhgan Kavousi, Sakineh Parvaneh, and Basam Moradi who went on hunger strikes in the last two weeks in Tehran, Mashhad, and Kamyaran prisons, have ended their strikes. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that imprisoned Kurdish writer and researcher Mozhgan Kavousi has ended her hunger strike after 10 days on 25 May. She had gone on a limited hunger...

Kurdish woman political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh has gone on a hunger strike on 22 May, protesting against her denial of access to medical services and her continued exile in Mashhad Central Prison. Separately, Mozhgan Kavousi, another Kurdish woman political prisoner, has been on a hunger strike in Evin Prison of Tehran since 16 May, in protest of the discretionary treatments towards prisoners by prison authorities...

Kurdish female political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh has been taken to a security office on the pretext of being transferred to a medical facility at 2300 local time on 24 February, but has been relocated to an unknown place, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). On 14 December 2020, Parvaneh was transferred from the prison of Quchan, where her family resides, to the female...

Kurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh was transferred from Quchan Prison to the Mashhad Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office for unknown reasons, after which she was transferred to the quarantine ward of Mashhad prison. At 10 pm on December 14, this political prisoner was transferred from Quchan Prison to a security detention centre in Mashhad for unknown reasons, and this morning she was transferred to this prison's...

Sakineh Parvaneh, a Kurdish political prisoner who went on a hunger strike in protest to being transferred from Evin Prison to Quchan Prison on October 31, sewed her lips together on the eighth day of her hunger strike. She is in a hunger strike to protest her planned re-transfer to Isfahan Prison, as well as the continuing pressure from security agencies and prison officials,...

The Tehran prosecutor has declined to the request to transfer Kurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh to the prison in Bojnourd, North Khorasan Province where her family resides. The family of this political prisoner has not been able to visit her since her arrest due to the long distance, a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network. The political prisoner had previously published a letter...