Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian security forces have arrested at least seven people in Piranshahr, Bukan and Oshnavieh in West Azerbaijan Province and Marivan in Kurdistan Province in recent days. On 22 January, civilians Shwana Khezrnezhad, Salah Khezrnezhad and Ahad Khezrnezhad were arrested without a warrant by the Ministry of Intelligence forces during a raid on their home in the village of Gerdeh Bon in Piranshahr. On the morning of...

Four civilians named Salman Afra, Aram Nikpey, Sivan Parto, and Jamal Gerami have been released on bail in the past few days from the prison of Marivan. The four men, who come from the village of Ney in Marivan, Kurdistan province, were charged with “collaborating with a Kurdish opposition party”. Aram Nikpey was arrested by security forces on 23 March after being summoned to the office...

A Kurdish Civilian from the Nay village of Marivan, has been sent to prison for serving his one-year imprisonment sentence, a source told the Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN). Salman Afra was arrested by security forces on November 18, 2019, and taken to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj. He was eventually released on a bail of 200 million tomans after...