Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Two environmental activists and members of the Kurdistan branch of the Wahdat National Party in Sanandaj, Arman Vafaei and Shaho Faraji, were arrested by security forces on Monday, February 18. A member of the above-mentioned party expressed concern over the summons and arrest of members of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party while announcing that Shaho Faraji and...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)- Both retired and employed teachers held a protest gathering in front of the Kurdistan Provincial Education and Training department in Sanandaj on Thursday, February 14. The protestors were holding up signs with slogans such as “Learning mother tongue is every human's right, Free education for all citizens, training system modifications, and the end of the privatisation program.” Teachers at the gathering...

Mokhtar Zarei, a Civil Rights activist in Sanandaj, was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in absentia by the Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the against Mokhtar Zarei was issued on Jan 6, 2019  by judge Behrooz Sharafi Yousofvand, head of Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court of...

Farhad Mohammadi, a lawyer and secretary of the National Unity Party in Kurdistan, was arrested by security forces after being summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence office in Sanandaj and transferred to the Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj. A reliable source in Sanandaj told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that Farhad Mohammadi, lawyer and secretary of the National Unity Party in Kurdistan, was arrested after...

Four civilians from the villages of Celin and Degaga of Sarvabad and four other from Piranshahr, all arrested by Intelligence Department of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) over the past two weeks, are still in the custody of this security institution and there is still no information about their fate. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that four civilians, Hamid Ahmadi, Zanyar Moradi,...

Iranian Security Forces arrested at least 3 Kurdish civilians in Sanandaj and Diwandareh and transferred to an unknown location. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that a civilian from Sanandaj, Homayoun Bahmani was arrested on Saturday, December 01 by security forces in Diwandareh and transferred to an unknown location. Moreover, security forces raided the office of two Sanandaj civilians known as Vahid Azimi and...

The fate of a Kurdish Environmental Activist, Kaveh Babamoradi who was arrested on June 20, 2018, is still uncertain. This detained activist is held at the Ministry of Intelligence detention Centre in the city of Sanandaj. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that he had been able to call his family several times during more than 6 months of detention. However, he has not...

Sahar Kazemi, an environmental activist temporarily released on bail on Nov 24, 2018 in order to attend the funeral of her father, was returned to Sanandaj Correctional Center after a week. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Sahar Kazemi was summoned to the Sanandaj Provincial Court on Sunday, Dec 2, 2018 after a week of temporary release to attend his father’s funeral...

Voria Khosravi and Sahar Kazemi, two environmental activists who were detained earlier by security forces in Sanandaj, were temporarily released on bail in order to attend the funeral of their parents. Mahvash Amiri, the mother of Sahar Kazemi, was also released from the Intelligence Ministry’s Detention Facility in the city of Sanandaj after an order for prohibition of prosecution was issued for her. Kurdistan Human...