Kurdistan Human Rights Network

In a continuation of arrests targeting the families of the victims of the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, security forces today arrested Rezan Saedi and Moayyed Saedi, the aunt and brother of Sarina Saedi, and Omid Niyazi, the brother of Mohsen Niyazi, in the cities of Sanandaj and Dehgolan in Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that security forces today surrounded the...

Branch 101 of the Criminal Court Two of Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, sentenced Hashem Saedi, the father of Sarina Saedi, one of the victims of the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, to six and a half months in prison and 40 lashes. The verdict was delivered to Saedi after he appeared at the Bukan court on 3 July, charging him with "disturbing...