Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The one-year prison sentence of Women’s rights activist Farzaneh Jalali has been upheld by the Provincial Court of Appeal. The sentence was issued by the Branch two of the Kermanshah Islamic Revolutionary Court in November of last year on charges of "propaganda against the state”. "My sentence was upheld by Branch 18 of the Kermanshah Court of Appeal, presided over by Judges Qalkhani and Hassanzadeh,...

Over the past few months since being released from a 17-day detention, Farzaneh Jalali (Kurdish civil activist) she has been repeatedly summoned by the News Office of the Intelligence Ministry in Kermanshah via telephone calls and threatened her to consent to cooperation with this organisation. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, the above-mentioned Kurdish civil activist has been summoned for interrogations four times...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network - On 23 February 2017, civil and women’s rights activist, Farzaneh Jalali, was arrested in Kermanshah, north western Iran. On 27 February 2017, Farzaneh Jalali was permitted to speak to her family for a short time on the telephone. She informed them that she is being held in the Intelligence ServiceDetention Centre in Kermanshah. Prior to that conversation, the human...

Iranian security forces arrested Kurdish civil and Kurdish women's right Farzaneh Jalali on 23 February in Kermanshah (Also known in Kurdish as Kermashan) and transferred her to an unknown location. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) sources, Jalali was contacted by the local notary office that asked her to go to their office, and the Iranian security forces arrested her when she arrived to that...