Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The trial of three members of the board of directors of the Kurdistan-Marivan Teachers' Union, Shaban Mohammadi, Eskandar Lotfi and Masoud Nikkhah, which was scheduled to be held at Branch 28 of Tehran's Islamic Revolutionary Court, was postponed to another time due to the change of the hearing authority. The activists will be tried in the same hearing as two detained French civilians Cécile Kohler...

The detained members of the Board of Directors of the Kurdistan-Marivan Teachers' Union, Shaban Mohammadi and Masoud Nikkhah were temporarily released on 20 August from Tehran's Evin prison on a bail of 2 billion Iranian Tomans – nearly 62,500 USD. Earlier on 17 August, Eskandar (Soran) Lotfi, the spokesperson of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Educators' Trade Union and a member of the board of...

Some seven detained teachers' union activists named Shaban Mohammadi, Masoud Nikkhah, Eskandar Lotfi, Omid Shah-Mohammadi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh, and Hiva Ghoreishi are still held in custody in Tehran's Evin Prison and the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province. Security forces had previously arrested the activists in the cities of Marivan and Divandarreh in Kurdistan province. On 5 July, Lotfi, the...

Iran has released on bail the teachers' union member Shaban Mohammadi from Marivan Prison, in the northwestern province of Kurdistan, on 24 February, after 35 days of detention. The activist has been released a 500 million Tomans – nearly 20,000 USD – bail. Mohammadi, who is a member of the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union in Marivan, was arrested by security forces at his home in Marivan on...

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence has transferred the detained teachers' union member Shaban Mohammadi from Marivan to Sanandaj, in the northwestern province of Kurdistan. The ministry's office in Marivan informed the activist's family today that they had taken him to their office in Sanandaj. Mohammadi, who is a member of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union in Marivan, was arrested by security forces at his home in Marivan on...

Iranian security forces arrested at least eight Kurdish civilians and activists in the past two days in the northwestern cities of Saqqez, Marivan, and Piranshahr. Zamaneh Ziviyeh, Meghdad Hassannezhad, Shaban Mohammadi, Rebwar Abdollahi, Morad Mamah-Rash, Ayoub Hadisi, Rahman Khedmatgozar, Ali Omarpour, and Faryad Shilan were detained and taken to an undisclosed location on 30-31 January. These individuals have been detained in some cases with beatings by...