Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish environmental activist "Sahar Kazemi" was released from Sanandaj Correctional Center at the end of her prison term, an informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).  Sahar Kazemi was arrested on Aug 9, 2018, and he was interrogated for several months under strict conditions. Her trial was held by Judge Saeedi at Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The status of two Kurdish civilians knownas Zahra Mohammadi and Iran Rahpeykar still remains uncertain as they are held by temporary arrest warrant in Sanandaj Correctional Centre while the political prisoner 'Sahar Kazemi' deprived of the right to leave and conditional release. KHRN has been informed that Zahra Mohammadi, a civil activist and a member of the Nozhin cultural-social association...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Branch 4 of the Sanandaj Court of Appeal has reduced Sahar Kazemi's sentence from five years of imprisonment - issued by branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj headed by Judge Saeedi- to 20 months in prison on charges of acting against national security. According to the information obtained by KHRN, this environmental activist, who is currently being...

Sahar Kazemi, an environmental activist temporarily released on bail on Nov 24, 2018 in order to attend the funeral of her father, was returned to Sanandaj Correctional Center after a week. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Sahar Kazemi was summoned to the Sanandaj Provincial Court on Sunday, Dec 2, 2018 after a week of temporary release to attend his father’s funeral...

Voria Khosravi and Sahar Kazemi, two environmental activists who were detained earlier by security forces in Sanandaj, were temporarily released on bail in order to attend the funeral of their parents. Mahvash Amiri, the mother of Sahar Kazemi, was also released from the Intelligence Ministry’s Detention Facility in the city of Sanandaj after an order for prohibition of prosecution was issued for her. Kurdistan Human...

Following the arrest of the environmental activist known as Sahar Kazemi in early August, her husband and mother were also summoned and arrested by Sanandaj Intelligence headquarters and transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj on Thursday, November 15. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Sahar Kazemi's husband known as Madeh Fathi and her mother, Mahvash Amiri were arrested...

The Sanandaj Prosecutor's Office refused to temporarily release an environmental activist called Sahar Kazemi (held at Sanandaj Central Prison) who was arrested by the security forces on Aug 9, 2018. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the environmental activist has been transferred to Intelligence Ministry's Detention Centre in the city of Sanandaj daily for 72 days, interrogated and returned back to...

Despite more than ten days since the arrest of two female civil activists in Ilam and Sanandaj, no information has been received about their fate and whereabouts. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Ilam Intelligence Forces raided the home of activist, Negisa Shahbazi on Monday, Aug 6, 2018 and arrested her while searching her home. She was then transferred to the Intelligence...