With the outbreak of the second wave of Coronavirus in Kurdistan province in recent weeks, which is much wider than the first wave, Kurdish civil and media activists have criticised the performance of provincial officials in the online channels and media. Following the rise of these criticisms, the Baneh governor’s office has sent a letter to the prosecutor and called for a crackdown on critics…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Shahram Safari, a journalist and director of the Rawejpress Telegram Channel, has been sentenced to 91 days in prison on charges of “spreading lies and disturbing public opinion” by publishing statistics on the number of civilians suffering from Covid-19 disease. Shahram Safari, from Sarpol-e-Zahab in Kermanshah province, was summoned to court in April this year on…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that a Kurdish photographer Mehdi Tavakoli has been summoned by the Sanandaj Intelligence office and interrogated about his activities. He has also been told that he was not currently allowed to leave the city of Sanandaj. Mehdi Tavakoli was arrested by security forces in Sanandaj on October 12, 2016, and was transferred to Sanandaj Central Prison after…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network – Gholamreza Nouri Ala, the editor-in-chief of the Kermanshah ِDaily Naqdhall, and another of his colleagues were arrested for spreading rumours about the governor of Kermanshah being infected with Coronavirus. This news was published on the telegram channel but hours later it was revealed that it was an “April Fools”. According to the IRNA news agency, quoting Kermanshah Public Relations and…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that organizations affiliated with the Security Forces and the Judiciary of Iran are still putting pressure on the former Teachers Union activist teacher “Ramin Zandnia” and his family to stop his activities even though he left the country several ago. “In the past few days a letter has been sent by the Attorney General to Ramin…
Read moreSecurity forces in Saqqez detained three family members of a Kurdish citizen Raouf Sheikhi, who lost his life six years ago in Sanandaj, while banning his memorial ceremony. Raouf Sheikhi lost his life when the vehicle in which he and two other people were travelling was shot by security forces. Security forces raided the home of Raouf Sheikhi on Friday, February 14, insulted his family…
Read moreParviz Nasseri, arrested in November protests, was sentenced to five years in prison by Branch 2 of the Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court on charges of “cooperation with Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK)”, reliable sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The preliminary verdict was served on his lawyer yesterday. The ruling was issued while the trial of the Kurdish civilian in…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that Rashid Naserzadeh, director of the “Shno 24” Telegram Channel and environmental activists, has been released on a bail of 200 million tomans. He was arrested by security forces on his way back to the Piranshahr-Oshnavieh (Shno in Kurdish) by security forces and taken to an unknown location on Tuesday 03, December. Naserzadeh had previously been summoned and interrogated…
Read moreTwo sources from Saqqez and Sanandaj have told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the security forces have been widely present at the burial ceremonies of Arvin Moratab and Aida Farzaneh in Behesht-e Mohammadi of Sanandaj in addition to the burial ceremonies of Rezgar Rahimi and his son Zhivan Rahimi in Saqqez. “Despite pressure and threats from security agencies to…
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