Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to disclose the fate of Kurdish dissident Edris Feqhi, whom the rights organisation’s urgent appeal statement said had been "forcibly disappeared" since July 2021 and was "at risk of torture and other ill-treatment".  Feqhi had been arrested after he was injured following armed clashes between Iranian government forces and Iranian Kurdish armed opposition group Free Life Party of...

A Kurdish civilian from Sardasht “Dara Rashidi” was transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison after being detained for 50 days at the Intelligence unit of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC ( Known as Al Mahdi detonation centre), an informed source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Dara Rashidi was arrested by security forces in Mahabad on December 09 and then transferred to the...

Four Kurdish civilians known as “Parviz Nouri”, “Farhad Nouri”, “Safar Nouri” and “Ali Azizi” detained by the Orumiyeh Intelligence Service in late August, were transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that these four civilians of the village of Anabe in Orumiyeh were arrested by the forces of the Orumiyeh Intelligence Service on Aug 15, 2019 and taken to the...

A death row Syrian Kurdish political prisoner has been transferred to an unknown location from Iran’s Orumiyeh Central Prison for unspecified reasons, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The KHRN has learned that Iranian security forces have transferred death row political prisoner Kamal Hassan Ramazan from Orumiyeh Central Prison to “an unknown location at around 11 pm on 7 September 2019.” The sudden relocation was...

Two detainees from Anbeh village of Orumiyeh, “Kamran Kamani and Keyvan Mokaremi”, and a Kurdish citizen of Turkey, “Hatam Ozdemir", were transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison after several weeks of being held under harsh interrogation at the detention centre formerly known as "81 Ramadan" which is currently controlled by the Orumiyeh Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) unit. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information...

Saber Kamani, residing at “Anbeh village” of Taregor Region in Orumiyeh, was transferred to the Orumiyeh Central Prison yesterday after being interrogated for five days at Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) detention centre. Kamran Kamani and Keyvan Makrami, two other residents of the same village who were arrested along with the afore-mentioned detainee, are still being held at the IRGC detention centre. Kurdistan Human Rights...

Shapour Soufizadeh, a Kurdish civilian from Orumiyeh who was arrested by Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in early July, was transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison on a temporary basis. According to Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN), he was arrested by IRGC Intelligence unit on June 30, 2019 and taken to the detention centre of the security unit at IRGC Garrison in Orumiyeh. Shapour Soufizadeh was interrogated...

Over the past 30 days, at least 32 civilians and activists were arrested by security forces affiliated with the Intelligence Bureau and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in various cities of Kurdistan. According to data released by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), recent arrests have taken place in the cities of Kamyaran, Sanandaj, Marivan, Saqqez, Takab, Shahindezh, Ashnouyah, Mahabad and Maku. Most of these...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The political prisoner "Esmat (Mohammad) Salahshour", who was transferred from Orumiyeh Central Prison to the Detention Center of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Apr 20, 2019, has been taken back to the Orumiyeh Central Prison after 15 days of interrogation. KHRN has received news that interrogators from the IRGC have been trying to file a new case against...