Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

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...

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...