Kurdish civilian Rasoul Karimi has been sentenced to 5 years in prison by Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Kermanshah on charges of “acting against national security.”, a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
Rasoul Karimi was arrested by law enforcement officers during protests in Kermanshah in November 2019 and released on bail after four months.
The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, has extended the temporary detention of Kurdish civilians Rauf Sheikh-Maroufi, Mohammad Faraji and...
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Read MoreKurdish civilians Mohsen Ghader-Rash and Omid Ghadernezhad were arrested after they were summoned by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)...
Read MoreSecurity forces today raided the village of Deyvaznav in Sarvabad, Kurdistan Province, and arrested civilians Omid Shahdad, Omar Hosseini and Ali Hosseini. The Kurdistan...
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Kurdish civilian Bahman Naderi has been sentenced to six months in prison and a fine of 80 million rials (nearly 115 USD) by Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, on charges of "propaganda against the state". Naderi, from Kermanshah, was arrested by agents of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Kermanshah on 12 September 2023,...
The second branch of the Court of Appeals in Van, south-eastern Turkey, has upheld the six-year, three-month prison sentence handed down to Kurdish environmental activist and former political prisoner Mahyar Ahmadi from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. Ahmadi, who was arrested on 12 September 2023 by Turkish border guards at the border between the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Turkey, was sentenced by a Turkish court in...
Omid Ghadimi, the brother of Foad Ghadimi, a protester killed during the Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Divandarreh, Kurdistan Province, has been sentenced to a total of 40 months in prison and a fine of 85 million rials – nearly 150 USD. The Islamic Revolutionary Court in Divandarreh charged Ghadimi with "membership of the Komala [Party of Iranian Kurdistan]", "propaganda activities against the state", and...
Sasan Chamanara, a Kurdish artist and civil rights activist from Ilam, has been sentenced to three months in prison and fined 200 million rials (around 350 USD) by Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Ilam on charges of "propaganda against the state in favour of opposition groups and media". The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Chamanara was summoned to the...
Iran has sentenced to death 27-year-old Kurdish prisoner from Orumiyeh Shahin Vasaf on charges of espionage for Israel, a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). This is the first time a credible source confirms his death sentence, issued on 2 October 2023. Shahin Vasaf, along with another Kurdish citizen Naser Vasaf, was detained by the intelligence forces in Orumiyeh on 21 September 2022. They...