Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Following the announcement of a new amnesty by the judiciary on the occasion of Nowruz(Newroz), two Kurdish political prisoners 'Tawfiq Mahmoudi' and 'Shahram Farhadi' were released from Sanandaj Central Prison on April 07.  Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Tawfiq Mahmoudi was transferred to Sanandaj Central Prison in mid-November last year to serve his one-year sentence and Shahram Farhadi was also transferred to...

Labour activist Tawfiq Mahmoudi was summoned to Sanandaj Criminal Court Branch 4 to serve his one-year sentence recently, a source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj sentenced Mahmoudi to one year in prison on 11 May which has recently been upheld by the Kurdistan Regional Court of Appeal. Mahmoudi was arrested at his workplace in Sanandaj on 9 March last year and was...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Eqbal Shabani and Towfiq Mahmoodi, two Kurdish Labour activists were sentenced to one year of suspended imprisonment for three years and one-year of imprisonment respectively on charges of cooperating with the "Opposition parties”. KHRN has obtained information that Eqbal Shabani’s hearing was held on May 5, 2019 at branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, headed by Judge...