Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Two Kurdish Environmental Activists Arrested in Kurdistan

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Following further arrests of Kurdish environmental activists in recent days, two other environmental activists, Zakaria Naqshbandi and Iraj Rahimzadeh, were detained by security forces in Sanandaj and Marivan. According to reports received by KHRN, security guards arrested Zakaria Naqshbandi a member of the Kurdistan's Green Population Association in Sanandaj at his workplace on February 17. The agents subsequently searched the...

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