Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Iranian security and intelligence forces are pursuing the civil activists and protesters in the Kurdish cities of Iran as the intelligence forces have intensified measures to crackdown the protests hit the country since 16 November against skyrocketing petrol prices. A civil activist, who has been summoned and interrogated by the Sanandaj Intelligence Service over the past few days, told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that he had...

An environmental activist and a member of the Chelchmeh Mountaineering Group in Sanandaj were summoned to the Intelligence Office on 7 November, and released after a lengthy interrogation. Jamal Asadi was arrested earlier on 5 March after being summoned to the Sanandaj Intelligence Agency and transferred to the detention centre affiliated with the agency. He had been released a day after his arrest.

A Kurdish civilian "Mohsen Saeedpour" was arrested by security forces in Sanandaj. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that Security forces have raided the Kurdish civilian's home on Wednesday, Aug 21 and confiscated a number of his personal belongings in addition to transferring him to an unknown location. No information is available on the whereabouts and the reason for his arrest.

Another Kurdish civilian, “Mohammad Khateri” from the village of "Shahini", has been detained by security forces affiliated with the Intelligence Office following recent arrests of Kurdish activists in Kamyaran. "This afternoon, Security forces in the Shahini village beat Mohammad Khateri who was working on the farm and arrested him in the presence of his family.”, a reliable source in Kamyaran has told Kurdistan Human Rights...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Hossein Kamangar, the Kurdish activist who has been detained since Jan 7, 2019, has not been in contact with his family since February. “ He contacted his family on Feb 6, 2019 but he has not had any contact with them since then. Security interrogators have announced that he would be deprived of the right to visit his family until...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Pouria Ahmadi, the head of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party and a member of the Central Council of Sanandaj, was arrested when presenting himself at the Sanandaj Intelligence Office following a summons and then he was transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in this city. KHRN has obtained information that this activist was telephone summoned...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network(KHRN): The Labour activist “Towfiq Mohammadi” was transferred to Sanandaj Central Prison after 45 days of detention at the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre. This labour activist was arrested by security forces on March 9, 2019 at his workplace in Sanandaj. Although Towfiq Mohammadi was transferred to the prison with a temporary arrest warrant, branch 2 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court announced that...

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...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Families of recently arrested activists of Sanandaj, Kamyaran and Marivan held a protest gathering in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) building in Sanandaj on Saturday morning February 24 and called for the immediate release of these people. “This gathering was led by a group of women from the families of the detainees. The crowd demanded the authorities...