Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish civil rights activists Salah Hossein-Panah and Hoshyar Shaabani have been released on bail from Baneh Prison in Iran's northwestern Kurdistan province. On 13 November, the environmental activist Hossein-Panah was released from Baneh Prison on a bail of 100 million Iranian Tomans – nearly 4,000 USD – after a month and a half of detention. The intelligence ministry forces had arrested him on 22 September in...

Iranian security forces have detained two Kurdish environmental activists Salah Hossein-Panah and Salar Salehi, and have taken them to an undisclosed location. On 22 September, security forces arrested Salah Hossein-Panah on one of the streets of Baneh, Kurdistan province. They took the activist to his home and confiscated some of his personal belongings after searching the house. Also, on 27 September, forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard...