Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Detained former Iranian and world wrestling champion Saman Pashaei is currently undergoing coercive interrogations for forced "confessions" at the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in

Security forces arrested Kurdish civilians Hossein Mahmoudpour, Hamzeh Ghanei, Omar Hosseinzadeh, Hedi Abdolbakht, and Najmaddin Eisazadeh in Oshnavieh and Piranshahr in West Azerbaijan Province in

Detained civilians Sahar Ahmadi, Zilan Molaei and Zeryan Molaei were provisionally released on bail from the Juvenile Detention Centre of Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, in recent days. In addition,

Security forces today arrested civilian Firmesk Babaei after she removed her compulsory hijab and chanted anti-government slogans on a street leading to the governor's office in Paveh, Kermanshah

In a recent wave of arrests, at least three more Kurdish civilians including Arsalan Kheyri, Mamal Sharifi and Hiva Rahnavard, were arrested by security forces in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province,

Security forces arrested Kurdish civilians Hiva Shabahang, Ayoub Mirzaei, Shirvan Khezri, Hedayat Khasteh, Sherko Nasiri, and Ashkan Rasouli in the cities of Oshnavieh and Mahabad in West Azerbaijan

Fereshteh Mansouri, a Kurdish civil rights activist from Sarableh, Ilam Province, has been sentenced to six months and one day in prison by Branch 101 of the Criminal Court of Chardavol, Ilam

Prisoner Saeid Biranvand was executed for murder-related charges on 13 August in Parsiloun Prison in Khorramabad, Lorestan Province. Biranvand, who comes from the village of Bid Gijeh in

Security forces arrested Kurdish civilians Loghman Sokhanvar and Houshyar Ghaderi, a 17-year-old child, in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, on 14 August and took them to an undisclosed