Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Labour activist Kamran Sakhtemangar has been sentenced to six years of imprisonment by the Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, including five years on charges of "membership in the Komala Kurdistan's Organization of the Communist Party of Iran, and one year on charge of propaganda against the state.” Per Article 2 of the Islamic Penal Code, five years of this sentence is enforceable. Sakhtemangar was arrested...

Labour activist Kamran Sakhtemangar was transferred to Sanandaj Central Prison to serve his prison term on October 3, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).  Earlier on Aug 29, 2019, the Sanandaj Intelligence agents went to Sakhtemangar’s home to arrest, however, he was not home at that time. The security forces seized some of his family's personal belongings, including cell phones and...

Two labour activists, “Seyed Ali Hosseini” and “Kamran Sakhtemangar”, were arrested by security forces in Saqqez and transferred to the Sanandaj Intelligence Bureau on Sept 4, 2019. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that security forces detained Sayed Ali Hosseini in his private garden near the village of Saqqez, along with another labour activist known as Kamran Sakhtemangar, on September 4. The two activists...