Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Worries have heightened over the well-being and fate of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), who was detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) almost 29 months ago. Fatemeh Maghsoudi, Faqhi's mother, expressed her frustration in a video obtained by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), saying that the security forces have not provided clear answers regarding her son's...

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...

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...

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...

Concerns grow over the fate of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), who was detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) nearly 20 months ago. The PJAK member forcibly disappeared on 24 July 2021 after being injured by the IRGC. The mother of the political prisoner said in a message that the security agencies have not given her a clear...

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have prohibited the continuation of the memorial service held for the senior member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) Yousef Rabbani (also known as Rezan Javid). Security agencies have reportedly summoned Rabbani's mother, Fatemeh Sohrabi, and his brothers and interrogated them for several hours. As part of the prohibition, the...

One year after the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) member Edris Feqhi was arrested and forcibly disappeared by Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) forces, concerns are mounting about his condition and fate. The political prisoner's mother says that she has not received any clear answers about his condition during the past year. The family of Feqhi, who disappeared on 24 July 2021 after being wounded by the...

The family of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) who was detained by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seven months ago, gathered in front of the office of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, to inquire about his condition on 21 February. Feqhi had been arrested in a village of Bukan, West Azerbaijan province,...

Officials at the al-Mahdi base of Iran's Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, have told the family of the detained member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), Edris Feqhi, that they were unaware of his situation. On 28 September, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) published a report saying the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had...