Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Three Sunni Kurdish prisoners, in the Orumiyeh Central Prison were sentenced to 25 years Imprisonment in total, by the Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh for membership in extremist groups. In June, 2016, security forces arrested Tofiq Abdollahi from Mahabad, Yousef Kamla from Naqadeh, Habib Amini from “Dez Siawash Village” of Orumieh along with Davood Mihanparast, at the same time as a group,a local source told Kurdistan Human...

Iranian authorities have arrested almost dozens Kurdish citizens in different cities in accusation of membership in Salafi groups following Tehran attacks on 7 June 2017, that killed 17 people. According to information obtained by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), in the past few days, the intelligence forces arrested a number of family members of attackers and Kurdish civilians, in accusation of collaborating with extremist religious...