Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Whereabouts of Kurdish retired teacher and civil rights activist Salman Olfati, who was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Gilan-e Gharb, Kermanshah Province, on 12 April, remain unknown. Olfati, 60, was arrested on a street in Gilan-e Gharb and taken to an undisclosed location. IRGC intelligence agents also conducted a raid on the activist's family home without presenting a...

Saman Oveysi, a 21-year-old Kurdish civilian, has been detained following a telephone summons to the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, in recent days. Details of Oveysi's place of detention and the specific charges against him remain unknown at this time. Over the past three weeks, at least 19 Kurdish civilians and activists have been arrested in the...

Kamal Lotfi, the father of Reza Lotfi, one of the protesters killed during the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom in Dehgolan, Kurdistan Province, was arrested on 9 April and taken to an undisclosed location. This is Lotfi's second detention, following his first arrest by security forces in April 2023, from which he was later released on bail. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned...

Mostafa Hamdi, a media activist and administrator of the Porseman Telegram group, was arrested by security forces in Saqqez, Kurdistan province, on 7 April and taken to an undisclosed location. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the arrest took place without a judicial warrant being presented by the security forces. The reason for Hamdi's arrest and his current whereabouts remain unknown. Previously, in August...

Dr. Loghman Ghanbari, a Kurdish writer, was temporarily detained by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in a house raid in Sarpol-e Zahab, Kermanshah Province, on 7 April. Ghanbari was detained in connection with his translation of the book "Kurdistan's Moment in the Middle East" by Ofra Bengio, which was published in Europe due to the lack of a publishing licence...