Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Four members of the Yarsan Civil Activists’ Advisory Council were arrested at a checkpoint in Dalahu, Kermanshah Province, on 10 November, and taken to an undisclosed location. The activists, Seyyed Amin Abbasi, Kheyrollah Haghjouyan, Pakzad Taheri, and Noshad Taheri, were detained at the Patagh checkpoint in Dalahu as they were returning from visiting Siavash Hayati in Qasr-e Shirin, Kermanshah Province. Hayati, a political prisoner and the...

The Branch One of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Sahneh, western Iran, has issued a legal summons for Yarsani activists Seyyed Amin Abbasi, Seyyed Karam Abbasi, and Seyyed Soroush Abbasi to submit their final defences at the court. The three brothers were charged with “assembly and collusion to commit a crime against national security”. According to the subpoena, the Prosecutor’s Office gave the activists...

Detained Yarsani activists Siavash Hayati, Seyyed Amin Abbasi, Seyyed Soroush Abbasi and Seyyed Karam Abbasi have been released on bail from Dizel Abad prison in Kermanshah, western Iran, in the past few days. The activists were arrested by the intelligence forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Kermanshah and Saveh on 30 November and 1 December 2022. On 17 December 2022, after initial interrogations...

Yarsani activists Siavash Hayati, Seyyed Amin Abbasi, Seyyed Soroush Abbasi and Seyyed Karam Abbasi, who were arrested by the intelligence forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Kermanshah and Saveh on 30 November and 1 December, are still held in detention. In the past few days, the three Abbasi brothers, who had previously been taken from the detention centre of IRGC's intelligence organisation...

The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) continues to hold five Yarsani activists named Siavash Hayati, Seyyed Amin Abbasi, Kaki Farzad Almasi, Seyyed Soroush Abbasi and Seyyed Karam Abbasi in its detention centre in Kermanshah, western Iran. The security institution arrested the activists on 30 November and 1 December in Kermanshah and Saveh, Markazi province. On 11 December, the Yarsan Civil Activists' Advisory...