Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Mehraneh Moradi, a detained teacher and resident of Sanandaj, was temporarily released on bail after 40 days while her husband, Karim Asghari, was arrested by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Sanandaj only three days after her release. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that, following a new wave of arrests of civilians and civil activists, IRGC forces arrested a civilian activist...

The Disciplinary Forces in Sanandaj prevented the organizers of a seminar titled "Reviewing the Social Situation of Children" from holding this ceremony under the pretext of having no permit. The forces dispersed the people who were present at the Fajr Cultural Complex in Sanandaj to participate in this seminar. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the Society for Defending Street and...

Khalil Karimi, a labour activist and member of the Free Trade Union of Iran Labourers, was sentenced to one year in prison by the Branch1 of Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Khalil Karimi was summoned to Branch 1 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court on Sunday, Nov 18, 2018 and his one-year imprisonment was officially served on him...

Following the arrest of the environmental activist known as Sahar Kazemi in early August, her husband and mother were also summoned and arrested by Sanandaj Intelligence headquarters and transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj on Thursday, November 15. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Sahar Kazemi's husband known as Madeh Fathi and her mother, Mahvash Amiri were arrested...

Five environmental activists, called Arman Ghafouri, Sahar Kazemi, Kaveh Babamoradi,Varia Khosravi and Shawgar Golabi who were arrested by security forces in the cities of Sanandaj and Marivan, are still detained by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) but their fate is unknown. An environmental activist, in Sanandaj, who wished to stay anonymous for security reasons, has told Kurdistan Human Rights...

Parastoo Mirza'i, a Kurdish civilian from Sanandaj, was arrested by the security forces following a telephone summons to the headquarters of the Sanandaj Intelligence Bureau. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) informed that Parastoo Mirza'i was arrested on Nov 3, 2018 after she was asked over a phone call to present herself to the headquarters of the Sanandaj Intelligence Bureau, from where she was taken...

Iranian security forces have detained three more Kurdish civilians in the Iranian Kurdish cities of Saqqez, Oshnavieh (Shno in Kurdish) and Sanandaj over the past few days. Meanwhile, officers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have questioned a number of Kurdish civilians and civil society activists in several Kurdish cities. Iranian security forces in Saqqez arrested Kurdish civilian Sediq Rahman Zadeh and one of his...

Over the past two weeks, dozens Kurdish civil and Guild activists in various cities of Kurdistan by security forces who also arrested several people. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), security forces have summoned, interrogated and arrested at least 20 Kurdish citizens and activists (both Guild & civil) in several cities (including Sanandaj, Kermanshah, Ilam, Baneh, Saqqez, etc) following the strike on Sept...

The Sanandaj Prosecutor's Office refused to temporarily release an environmental activist called Sahar Kazemi (held at Sanandaj Central Prison) who was arrested by the security forces on Aug 9, 2018. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the environmental activist has been transferred to Intelligence Ministry's Detention Centre in the city of Sanandaj daily for 72 days, interrogated and returned back to...