Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Akbar Goyli, a Kurdish civil right activist, has been sent to Sanandaj Central Prison to serve a two-year prison sentence on Saturday, Jan 16, an informed source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).  This civil rights activist was sentenced to 5 years in prison by the Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on April 14, 2020, on charges of "collaborating with the Free...

Kurdish civil rights activist and former member of the Green Party of Kurdistan Akbar Goyli, has been sentenced by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj to five years in prison on charges of "collaboration with the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK)." The trial of this activist was held on Apr 14 at Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Hossein...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Amir Goyli, a civilian of Sanandaj, was arrested by security forces at his family home on February 05 and taken to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj. The reason for his arrest has not yet been announced. He is the brother of Akbar Goyli, a civil activist from Sanandaj who was arrested in mid-December after attending...

Civil right activist Akbar Goyli, who is also a former political prisoner, was rearrested by the Iranian security forces after attending the Sanandaj Judiciary and transferred to an unknown location on 7 December. Akbar Goyli had been summoned to court when arrested. No exact information was available about the reasons of his arrest at the time of airing the ...

Two Kurdish activists have been released on bail on the afternoon of10 September while another two activists from Kamyaran were transferred to Kamyaran Prison following a change of their arrest warrants to prison sentences. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Akbar Goyli and Arman Qeitasi were released on bail, and that both were transferred from the Ministry of Intelligence’s Detention Centre in Sanandaj...