Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Public and Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj has summoned the secretary of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party and lawyer Farhad Mohammadi on 14 July and sent him to Sanandaj Central Prison to serve a 10-month sentence. Security forces had arrested the Kurdish activist on 4 January 2019, during a large wave of arrests of Kurdish environmental activists and members of the Kurdistan...

The four-year prison sentence of the secretary of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party and lawyer Farhad Mohammadi, given by Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj in June 2020 on charges of “acting against national security”, has been commuted to 10 months in prison in Court of Appeals of Kurdistan province. The hearing has been held in the first quarter...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Two Kurdish detainees known as Farzad Hosseini and Mehdi Ghobadi have been released from the Kamyaran Prison on heavy bail over the past few days. KHRN has been informed that Farzad Hosseini, a member of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party, was released on a bail of one billion Tomans. He was detained by security forces in Kamyaran...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The fate of Twelve Kurdish environmental activists and members of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party, detained by the State Intelligence Bureau and the Intelligence Department of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) during the past few months, still remains uncertain. According to the family members of some of these detainees, Hossein Kamangar, Farhad Mohammadi, Homayoun Bahmani, Rashed...

Following the arrest of ten political and civil activists affiliated with the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party, a number of current and former members from Kamyaran and Sanandaj were summoned to the Intelligence Office in Sanandaj and interrogated for several hours. Moreover, spouses of three previously arrested persons, who were also former members of the women's committee of the Kurdistan branch of the...