Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested a Kurdish civilian from the village of Tangisser and a resident of Sanandaj August 24, 2019. The IRGC Intelligence Unit raided the house of Dler Nasri, a Kurdish civilian from Sanandaj, and his family, confiscating a number of his personal belongings while inspecting the house. He has been taken to IRGC Detention Centre in Shahramfar Camp in Sanandaj for...

Tawfiq Sarafraz, director of the Sanandaj Cemetery Organization (Known as Aramestan) who has been in police custody for about three weeks, suffered a cardiac attack at the detention centre. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that he was taken to Tohid Hospital in Sanandaj after a heart attack and he is currently in the intensive care unit (ICU). Tawfiq Sarafraz, who was a member of...

Following further arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists during the past few days, seven other Kurdish civilians have been arrested in Orumiyeh, Shahin Dezh, Takab, Mahabad and Sanandaj. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that Sanandaj security forces have arrested Ramadan Soltaniyan at his home on July 6, 2019 and transferred him to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj. Ramazan Soltaniyan's sons...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Idris Menbari and Rebvar Menbari, members of the Nozhin cultural-social association, were released after being released for four days. Zahra Mohammadi, another member of the association, is still in detention. A reliable source told KHRN that police force forces had stormed into the homes of Rebvar Menbari Idris Menbari & Zahra Mohammadi on May 23, 2019 and arrested them. According to...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Branch 4 of the Sanandaj Court of Appeal has reduced Sahar Kazemi's sentence from five years of imprisonment - issued by branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj headed by Judge Saeedi- to 20 months in prison on charges of acting against national security. According to the information obtained by KHRN, this environmental activist, who is currently being...

Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN): Afshin Sheikholeslami Vatani, the environmental activist who was arrested On Sunday, February 17 by security forces in Sanandaj, has been able to make a brief call to his mother. However, his family is still unaware of the reason for his detention and whereabouts. Negar Nasri Moghadam, mother of Afshin Sheikholeslami Vatani, has told KHRN that "I have been commuting to...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Over the past few days, seven Kurdish activists- who were arrested in Kamyaran, Sanandaj and Marivan- were temporarily released on bail. Meanwhile, 14 other activists are still held at the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj. Jamal Asadi spent one day in prison while Iraj Rahimzadeh, Pouria Ahmadi and Zakaria Naqshbandi served 15 days. Shaho Faraji spent 20 days...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Mokhtar Zarei, a Kurdish Civil Rights activist, has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment on charges of participation in protest gathering and conspiracy against national security by the Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj. According to reports received by KHRN, Mokhtar Zaraei was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in absentia on March 03 per Article 610...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): On Sunday, February 17, Afshin Sheikholeslami Vatani was arrested by security forces at his family home in Sanandaj. His sister, Negin Sheikholeslami Vatani, has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network that "Five Iranian security agents entered our family house with a court order to arrest my brother. After searching our house, they arrested him but we are still uncertain to [which...