Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Security forces have arrested three civilians in Mahabad and six in Oshnavieh and villages in the past two days. They have taken the civilians to an undisclosed location. Iran has launched a new wave of arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists. Since 24 July, forces have arrested at least 24 in northwestern Bukan, Mahabad, and Oshnavieh. In the past two days, Soran Dorbash, Ako Dorbash, and...

A Kurdish civilian named Mohammad Houshangi, who has been arrested during the wave of arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists launched in January 2021, is still being held in temporary detention on the accusation of “membership in a Kurdish opposition group” and “propaganda against the state”, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Mohammad Houshangi, whose name had not previously been mentioned in the...

Sources have told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that 11 Kurdish activists, who were detained during the wave of arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists launched by the Iranian government on 9 January 2021, have been released on bail. Reportedly, on 7 March, activists Azimeh Naseri, Farhad Musapour, Fereydoun Musapour, Bahman Yousefzadeh, Afshin Mam-Ahmadi, Soran Hosseinzadeh, Sirwan Nouri, and Shapol Khezripour were released on...

At least 53 Kurdish activists, who were detained in the recent wave of Kurdish civilians and activists in Iran, are still being held in the detention centres of the intelligence office and the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC in the cities of Orumiyeh, Sanandaj, and Marivan. More than 100 people have, so far, been arrested after the launch of the new wave of arrests on...

Six Kurdish activists that were detained in the recent wave of arrests in Iran have been transferred to prisons in Orumiyeh and Mahabad during the past week, after the completion of their interrogation. One of these activists has later been taken from prison to an unknown location to be “further interrogated”, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). On 6 February, Kurdish female civil...

Iranian security forces have arrested two Kurdish civilians in Oshnavieh, western Iran, on 30 January, following the recent wave of arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).The security forces raided Vahed Sheikh Mohammadi’s house, a resident of Aliabad village of Oshnavieh, detained him, and searched his house.Simultaneously, the security forces detained Fardin Bayazidi from Oshnavieh on the...

Iranian security forces have detained four more people in the majority Kurdish western Iran without a court order, on 23-24 January, bringing the number of detentions in the recent wave of arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists to a total of 57, sources have told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network.Reportedly, on 24 January, civilian Babak Babaei was detained in the city of Saqez and...