Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A group of retired employees of the Telecommunication Company of Iran took to the streets in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, today to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with their living conditions and to press for the resolution of various issues. The protests were not limited to Kermanshah, as similar demonstrations by retired telecom workers took place simultaneously in several cities across the country. The main demands of the pensioners...

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Police Intelligence Organisation summoned at least ten labour activists in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 30 April and threatened them not to organise any celebrations. The summoned activists include Sosan Razani, Hajar Saeidi, Mozaffar Salehnia, Sharif Saedpanah, Kamran Sakhtemangar, Ramin Karimi, Rebwar Abdollahi, Towfigh Mahmoudi, Reza Amjadi, and Habibollah Karimi. Security interrogators questioned the activists for several hours and threatened them not...

Iranian security forces detained several Kurdish labour activists and teachers before and during International Workers' Day across Iranian Kurdistan. On 1 May 2022, coinciding with International Workers' Day and on the eve of the day that has been named Teacher's Day in Iran, numerous protest rallies were held in various cities of Iran by labour activists and teachers. The Coordination Council of Iranian Cultural Associations had...

Following the increasing pressures on labour activists on the eve of International Workers' Day, at least four Kurdish activists were summoned by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on 28-29 April. Activists Mozaffar Salehnia, Sheis Amani, Towfigh Mahmoudi, and Armin Sharifeh were interrogated for several hours and released afterwards. A labour activist in the city of Sanandaj...

The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Saqqez has referred the case of the prominent labour activists Mahmoud Salehi and Osman Esmaeili to the Islamic Revolutionary Court of the city, four days after the arrest of the activists. Salehi and Esmaeili were arrested in Saqqez on 16 May for their social media activities on International Workers’ Day and were accused of “propaganda against the state”. “Mahmoud...