Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian security forces have arrested two environmental activists from Piranshahr in northwestern West Azerbaijan province on 17 November. Also, two other environmental activists detained in the past months remain in custody in the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province. Jahangir Sagharnia, a member of the Environmental Supporters Association in Piranshahr, was arrested by security forces on 17 November. Simultaneously, another member of...

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...