Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Detained Kurdish civilians Vahid Chavaran, Mohammad Hossein Haaseli, and Nasser Rezaei sewed their lips together in the pre-trial detention centre of Ilam Prison, one day after starting a hunger strike. The Kurdish civilians, along with Bakhtiar Mohammadzadeh, a detained civilian from Darreh Shahr in Ilam Province, began their hunger strike on 3 September in protest at their continued detention. Today, in response to the authorities' neglect...

Security forces arrested Vahid Chavaran, a mountaineer from the town of Sarabbagh in Iran's western province of Ilam, as he attempted to leave the country on 23 June and took him to an undisclosed location. In recent months, security forces have repeatedly raided Chavaran's family home to arrest him in connection with the recent anti-government protests in Abdanan, Ilam province. These attempts to arrest him were...