Kurdistan Human Rights Network

On Thursday, February 14, Shadman Bani Bashar, an environmental activist and a member of the Chelchameh Mountaineering Group, was arrested by security forces in Sanandaj and taken to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj, an informed source has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). He confirmed the news of his arrest by security forces in a short call to his family.

On Wednesday, January 22, security forces raided the home of Kurdish civil activist Fardin Moradi in Sanandaj and detained him while searching his home. He was taken to an unknown location. As of the moment of setting up this news, no specific information was available on the charges and whereabouts of this civil society activist. Fardin Moradi was also arrested by security forces earlier in September...

Since yesterday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) continue to be present at Azadi Square in Kermanshah and Sananda where protesters have gathered after the Ukrainian passenger jet was shot down by IRGC. Eyewitnesses in the Sanandaj and Kermanshah have told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that security equipped with water spray vehicles had been present at Azadi (Iqbal) Square in Sanandaj and Azadi...

Labour activist Kamran Sakhtemangar has been sentenced to six years of imprisonment by the Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, including five years on charges of "membership in the Komala Kurdistan's Organization of the Communist Party of Iran, and one year on charge of propaganda against the state.” Per Article 2 of the Islamic Penal Code, five years of this sentence is enforceable. Sakhtemangar was arrested...

Civil right activist Akbar Goyli, who is also a former political prisoner, was rearrested by the Iranian security forces after attending the Sanandaj Judiciary and transferred to an unknown location on 7 December. Akbar Goyli had been summoned to court when arrested. No exact information was available about the reasons of his arrest at the time of airing the ...

More than 300 civilians have been arrested by security forces since mass protests shook Iran in opposition of skyrocketing petrol prices of which 50 of them have been released on bail of 30- 60 million Tomans in recent days, local sources in Sanandaj told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). According to civilians who were recently released, the detained protesters are being held in the detention...

At least 29 civilians have been killed, over 200 got wounded and hundreds have been arrested in the Kurdish cities in Iran following a new wave of protests in Iran against skyrocketing of petrol prices in the country, several sources confirmed to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Following the sudden increase in petrol price, widespread protests across Iran, including Kurdish cities such as Ilam, Dehloran, Islamabad...

 Four Kurdish civilians of Sanandaj were each sentenced to one year in prison by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on October 23. The court charged Yasin Karimi, Hemen Mohammadi, Yadegar Jafari and Pouria Naseri with "propaganda against the state in favour of one of the Kurdish opposition parties.”  The four civilians were arrested on July 13 2019, the anniversary...

The security forces in Sanandad city has tightened security measures and widely spread riot police and special guards on all the streets leading to the Azadi square to prevent a possible rally against the Turkish Army incursion into the north and east of Syria, known as Rojava, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The sourced added that tight security measures have been...