Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has sentenced Srwa Pour-Mohammadi and Edris Menbari, two members of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, to ten years in prison. The activists were charged with "forming or participating in groups or associations with the aim of undermining national security", the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The verdict was notified to the activists' lawyers on...

Iranian security forces detained Srwa Pour-Mohammadi, a member of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 29 January and took her to an undisclosed location. The civil rights activist was arrested while pursuing the cases of three other detained members of the organisation at the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj. In the past two months, security forces arrested three members of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural...