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June 16, 2023

IRGC continues militarisation, destruction of Mount Kusalan

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) today resumed bombing the protected areas of Mount Kusalan in Sarvabad, Kurdistan province. The IRGC's Shahramfar base and Beit-ol-Moqaddas Corps in Kurdistan are conducting a military operation in the area for the fifth consecutive day. At the same time, there have been reports of IRGC drones flying over Shaho Mountain in Kamyaran, Kurdistan province. Some villagers near Mount Kusalan spoke to...

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June 14, 2023

IRGC continues bombing Kurdistan’s mountains in west Iran

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has heavily militarized the mountainous areas of the cities of Kamyaran, Sarvabad and Marivan in Kurdistan province in recent days under the pretext of "conducting a military exercise". As well as continuing to bomb Kusalan Mountain in Sarvabad, the IRGC also shelled Gholle Bard Mountain in Marivan for a few hours on 13 June. An IRGC military convoy equipped with...

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June 13, 2023

IRGC deploys troops, shells Mount Kusalan in Sarvabad

Several villagers living near Kusalan Mountain in Sarvabad, Kurdistan province, spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and said that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had bombed the area and deployed troops on 12 June. According to these civilians, in the morning, IRGC forces shelled part of Mount Kusalan near the village of Razab. Later at noon, an IRGC military convoy and several...

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June 7, 2023

IRGC forces shell Bouralan border area in northwest Iran

Iran's Revolutionary Guards yesterday bombed the Bouralan border area in Maku, West Azerbaijan province, in the north-west, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On 6 June, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned residents of villages around the border heights of Bouralan that they would not be allowed to travel to the area for a few days. At the same time, the KHRN has...

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May 12, 2023

Forcibly disappeared PJAK member’s mother released

Fatemeh Maghsoudi, the mother of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) who was forcibly disappeared 21 months ago by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was released on 11 May after signing a written pledge not to stage sit-ins outside security institutions in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province. Maghsoudi, 67, was arrested on 9 May for staging...

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May 10, 2023

Forcibly disappeared PJAK member’s protesting mother arrested

Fatemeh Maghsoudi, the mother of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) who was forcibly disappeared, was arrested on 9 May for staging a sit-in before the office of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province. The PJAK member was forcibly disappeared 21 months ago after being injured and arrested by the IRGC. Feqhi's...

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March 28, 2023

Iran judiciary refrains from prosecuting IRGC for killing teenager

Iran's judiciary has been refraining from prosecuting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for killing Behzad Azizi, a 19-year-old Kurdish civilian in Baneh, Kurdistan province. On 22 March, IRGC forces killed Azizi at the Karimabad checkpoint at the entrance of Baneh. Although the young man's family filed a complaint against the IRGC, the court has taken no action against the IRGC forces and the judicial authorities...

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March 7, 2023

IRGC intelligence arrests Kurdish Yarsani activist in Iran’s Kermanshah

The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested Kurdish Yarsani activist Kaveh Salimi at his home in Kermanshah, western Iran, on 5 March. Security agents searched Salimi's house and confiscated some of his personal belongings, including his mobile phone and tablets. In recent weeks, the civil rights activist was summoned by IRGC's intelligence agency in Kermanshah and interrogated, Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)...

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February 17, 2023

IRGC intelligence forces detain two Kurdish civilians in Iran’s Dehgolan

The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) detained Kurdish civilians Moslem Hossein-Panahi and Pezhman Hossein-Panahi in the village of Qeru Chay in Dehgolan, Kurdistan province, on 15 February. There is no information on the whereabouts of these civilians and the charges brought against them.

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