Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Baneh, Kurdistan province, has sentenced social media activist Ebrahim Shouriani to seven months in prison. The court has charged Shouriani, also known by the nickname Shoresh, with “propaganda activities against the Islamic Republic by publishing images and content online”. Shouriani is the admin of the ‘Prsa u Sarakhoshiakani Baneh’ telegram channel. The channel publishes information on the deaths...

The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh has sentenced Kurdish Sunni activist Jafar Osafi to seven years and six months in prison for “membership in religious extremist groups”. On 31 July, the court officially notified the activist detained in Orumiyeh Central Prison since June 2020. Jafar Osafi is a religious activist from Bukan and one of the admins of a Sunni religious telegram channel about answering questions...

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...

Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Shahriar county, Tehran province, has sentenced Heydar Ghorbani, a labor activist and a member of the Free Trade Union of Iran, to a total of 11 years in prison on charges of “membership in a group or society, or a branch of societies formed within the country with the aim of disrupting national security” and “propaganda...

Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad has sentenced Kurdish political prisoner Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini to 40 years in prison and internal exile to Orumiyeh Central Prison on charges of “enmity against God” through membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI). Sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that Hosseini was officially summoned to the Enforcement of Judgements Office of...

A Turkish civilian from Salmas named Reza Abbasi has been sent to Orumiyeh Central Prison in the past days to serve 14 months in prison, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Abbasi was arrested by the security forces in Salmas, West Azerbaijan province, in August 2020. After being held for a month in the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence and Orumiyeh...

Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad has sentenced the Kurdish political prisoner Mohammad Moradi to 40 years in prison and internal exile to Orumiyeh Central Prison on charges of “armed insurrection” (baghi) through “membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI)”. A relative of the political prisoner confirmed the news to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and said: "Mohammad Moradi...

The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Marivan has sentenced two Kurdish men to prison terms, accusing them of allegedly “collaborating with the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK)”. The court sentenced Meraj Mortazaei to one year and Hiwa Azizpour to five years in prison, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Mortazaei and Azizpour – both from Deyvaznav village of Sarvabad in Kurdistan province – were officially...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network(KHRN) has learned that civil activists - Afshin Sheikholeslami , Armin Esperlus, Iraj Rahimzadeh, Fardin Karimi and Arman Vafaie- were sentenced to three months and one day in prison. The hearing was held by branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj, headed by Judge Saeedi. According to the verdict issued verbally to the lawyers of these prisoners on...