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January 20, 2025

Rights groups condemn wave of arrests in Ahwaz, call for immediate release of detainees

A group of 14 human rights organisations has issued a joint statement condemning the recent widespread wave of arrests in the Ahwaz Region (Khuzestan). The statement calls on the United Nations and the global human rights community to demand the immediate release of the detainees and to hold the Iranian authorities accountable for ongoing rights violations, including the suppression of freedom of expression, peaceful assembly...

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January 14, 2025

Security forces arrest 13 Kurdish civilians; three imprisoned

Security forces have arrested at least 13 Kurdish civilians and activists in recent days in Kermanshah, Sarpol-e Zahab, Sanandaj, Divandarreh, Bukan and Mahabad, three of whom have been sent to prison to serve their sentences. Additionally, four civilians, including two minors, arrested in a recent wave of arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists, have been provisionally released on bail. In recent days, security forces arrested Armin...

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January 3, 2025

Security forces arrest at least 38 Kurdish civilians in second half of December

Security forces arrested at least 38 Kurdish civilians and activists in the second half of December, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On 15 December, the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) simultaneously arrested Kurdish civilians Hemin Palani, Pouya Deljou, Aryam Ahmadi, Payam Ranjbar, Kaveh Sohrabi, Ayman Safaei, Omid Salehi, Yousef Ranjbar and Khaled Kamari without warrants at their family...

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September 20, 2024

Security forces arrest seven Kurdish civilians, whereabouts unknown 

Security forces have arrested at least seven Kurdish civilians in Divandarreh and Marivan, Kurdistan Province, and Gilan-e Gharb, Kermanshah Province, in recent days, continuing the recent wave of arrests targeting Kurdish civilians and activists. On 19 September, security forces arrested Khalil Asghari without a warrant at his workplace in Divandarreh. On 17 September, Salah Fathi was arrested in the village of Rashidabad, and Mani Mohammadi in...

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December 17, 2021

Arrest wave: Prison authorities release three Kurdish civilians in Iran

Authorities at Iran's Marivan prison have released three Kurdish civilians detained during the recent wave of arrests in the northwestern Kurdistan province. Civilians Edris Bahramian, Mohammad Ahmadi, and Farid Derakhshani were temporarily released on 16 December on a 500 million Iranian Toman – nearly 20,000 USD – bail each. The civilians who come from the Ney village of Marivan were held in detention for one month. On...

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November 15, 2021

Arrest wave: Iran detains five more Kurdish civilians

Iranian intelligence ministry arrested five Kurdish civilians in Sanandaj and its Niyar village in Kurdistan province on 14 November and transferred them to the province's central detention facility in the city. The detentions are a part of the recently launched wave of summons and arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists across the north-western Kurdistan province. The province's General Directorate of the Ministry of Intelligence currently holds...

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February 10, 2021

Detention of at least 25 Kurdish activists extended

Public prosecutor’s offices in several cities of Iran have extended the detention period of at least 25 Kurdish activists taken into custody in the continued wave of arrests launched on 9 January. One month after the start of a new wave of arrests of Kurdish activists, the families of a number of detainees told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the detentions of the...

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