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September 12, 2022

Amnesty calls on Iran to reveal fate of detained Kurdish dissident

Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to disclose the fate of Kurdish dissident Edris Feqhi, whom the rights organisation’s urgent appeal statement said had been "forcibly

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August 31, 2021

Iran security forces arrest two Kurdish civilians in Oshnavieh

Iranian security forces have detained Kurdish civilians Heydar Alizadeh and Shirzad Mamandi in Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan province, on 29 August. Security forces have taken the two civilians to an

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July 27, 2021

Kurdish woman drowns after boat capsizes near Greece

Kurdish woman asylum-seeker Monireh Heydari and some other asylum seekers have drowned after a boat carrying them turned over in the Mediterranean Sea near the Crete Island in Greece. The boat

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June 8, 2021

Iraqi border forces shoot, injure a young kolbar

Iraqi border forces have opened fire on a group of kolbars in the morning of 8 June in the border areas of Hawraman, as a result of which a young kolbar named Yasser Mohammad-Karimi has been

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June 8, 2021

Iran sentences secretary of Kurdistan branch of National Unity Party to 10 months in jail

The four-year prison sentence of the secretary of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party and lawyer Farhad Mohammadi, given by Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj in

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June 7, 2021

Two Kurdish civilians released on bail after interrogation in Orumiyeh

Photo from left to right; Ali Ejaz and Ahmad Mahmoudian Kurdish civilians Ahmad Mahmoudian and Ali Ejaz, who were interrogated for 16 days on the accusation of "membership in a Kurdish opposition

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June 7, 2021

Iran interrogates Kurdish civilians over publishing information on boycotting presidential elections, say sources

Sources of the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) in various cities of Iranian Kurdistan report that a score of civilians have been summoned and interrogated by security agencies over the past

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June 7, 2021

Ahvaz: Detained Arab teacher’s situation remains unclear

Security agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Ahvaz have arrested an Arab teacher named Falah Heydari on 19 May, and since then there has been no information about the detention

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June 7, 2021

Iran court sentences labour activist to 11 years in jail

Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Shahriar county, Tehran province, has sentenced Heydar Ghorbani, a labor activist and a member of the Free Trade Union of Iran, to a total of 11 years

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