Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

Three Kurdish female political prisoners Sakineh Parvaneh, Soheila Hijab and Zeynab Jalalian are still on a hunger strike in Qarchak Prison. Meanwhile, the health condition of Zeynab Jalalian is reported critical with severe coughs and chest pain, informed sources have told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network. Sakineh Parvaneh, who is being held in Ward 3 of Qarchak Prison, has been on a hunger strike since June 15,...

Kurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh has been on a hunger strike at Qarchak prison since Monday, May 25, in protest to his five-year prison sentence and authorities' failure to comply with the principle of separation of crimes. She has been transferred from the quarantine to Ward 3, where drug and financial prisoners are being held, for the past several weeks. On May 25, Peyman Darfshan, the...

According to an informed source in Tehran, a female political prisoner named "Sakineh Parvaneh" has been transferred from Qarchak Prison in Varamin to Aminabad Psychiatric Hospital in Rey. The Kurdish civilian from Khorasan was previously held in Evin Prison, but she was transferred to Qarchak Prison in late March."30-year-old Sakineh Parvaneh surrendered to Iranian forces on the border between Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan about...