Kurdistan Human Rights Network

According to the information obtained by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), more than 40 Sunni civilians in various cities of Kurdistan have been arrested by security forces on charges of religious activities during the past seven months. These people from Sanandaj, Kamyaran, Marivan, Baneh and Saqqez are all currently being held at the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj. A number of these detainees...

The arrest warrants for ten Kurdish political and civil rights activists 'Hadi Kamangar, Fazel Qeitisi, Reza Asadi, Farhad Mohammadi, Rashed Montazeri, Hossein Kamangar, Isa Feizi, Amanj Ghorbani, Zanyar Zemiran and Bakhtiar Kamangar' were extended over the past few days. They have also been severely under pressure for making TV confessions. These civilians were arrested by security forces earlier between January 01 and 06. An informed...

Ten detained Iranian Kurdish activists are under pressure to make false confessions, with influential imams and officials demanding their immediate execution. Recent changes to the administrators and security apparatus of Iran’s Kurdestan province and other Kurdish populated regions are the main factors behind the alarming security measures used to crack down on Kurdish activists. The arrests were made following militarisation of Kurdish cities, towns and villages in Iran, where Kurdish...

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...

Following further arrest of Kurdish activists in various cities of Kurdistan, Zanyar Zemiran, a former deputy of the Kurdistan branch of National Unity Party was arrested and transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Zanyar Zemiran, a former deputy of the Kurdistan branch of National Unity Party, was arrested at his workplace, the Directorate General...

Following the recent arrest of Environmental activists in Kamyaran, another Kurdish activist, Amanj Ghorbani was arrested at his workplace, the Department of Environment. So far, 8 people have been detained in Kamyaran. Farhad Mohammadi, a lawyer, Fazel Qiatassi, Reza Asadi and Hadi Kamangar, secretary and members of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party respectively, were each detained on January 01 and 02. Isa...

Iranian security forces have attacked the shop of a civilian in Kamyaran, Bakhtiar Kamangar, beaten and arrested him. He has been transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that security forces have attacked the shop of Bakhtiar Kamangar in Imam Shafi'i Kamyar Square of Kamyaran, beaten and arrested him at noon on January 6,...

Farhad Mohammadi, a lawyer and secretary of the National Unity Party in Kurdistan, was arrested by security forces after being summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence office in Sanandaj and transferred to the Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj. A reliable source in Sanandaj told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that Farhad Mohammadi, lawyer and secretary of the National Unity Party in Kurdistan, was arrested after...

In the past days, three Kurdish civil activists (resident of Sanandaj) were summoned to the Sanandaj Intelligence Office headquarters and interrogated on their activities. "On Tuesday, December 13, three Kurdish civil activists known as Habiballah Karimi, Tofigh Alipanah and Ahmad Qamari, were summoned by the headquarters of the Sanandaj Intelligence Office. They were interrogated and threatened for several hourse on their activities such as holding...