Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Afshin Hussein Panahi, a Kurdish activist detainee, was sentenced to eight and a half years of imprisonment by the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on charges of propaganda against the regime and cooperating with one of the Kurdish parties. "On the afternoon of Oct 25, 2017, the court hearing for Afshin, Ahmad and Zubair Hussein Panahi was held at Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court of...

"In the past few days, the branch two of Orumiyeh (also known as Urmiye) Revolutionary Court headed by judge Ali Sheikhlou sentenced a Kurdish political prisoner to five years in prison," a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). "Afshin Asadzadeh, a Kurdish citizen from Orumiyeh, was arrested by the security forces at his home on 24 October 2016.He was detained at a...

The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh has collectively sentenced three Kurdish political prisoners to several years behind bars in a one-hour trial. A reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that “three Kurdish political prisoners Kamal Hussein Ramezan [who is serving a long jail sentence at ward 12 of Orumiyeh prison), Ali Yeganeh kept in juvenile section of the prison and Abdollah Amoui...