According to information form the Kurdish city of Saghez Iran’s Security Serivce “Itlaat” arrested three Kurdish men by the names of Aibad Shekhi, Kamil Fetahi and Ali Emini four days ago.
The three men are being held in a prison run by the Itlaat in Saghez. There is no information about what the men are [...]
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard arrested a Kurdish student activist by the name of Abbas Qadri in Tehran on the National Student Day, 7th of December. This makes Qadri the 17th Kurdish university student being arrested on due to their activities on the National Student Day.
Qadri, who is originally from the Kurdish city of Meriwan, was also [...]
In the video above, Congressman Rob Andrews expresses the fundamental problem with the United States policy towards Iran, the Fox News anchor makes a couple of important points, but it is strange that the U.S. still doesn’t understand that:
1. Sanctions will not cause a change in the Islamic Republics behavior.
2. The U.S. will not [...]
Iran’s Intelligence Service arrested the Kurdish environment activist Ezir Alliasi five days ago in the Kurdish city of Mehabad after interrogating. According to different human rights organization Alliasi was put in solitary confinement in the prison of Urmye after two days of interrogation.
Alliasi is believed to be moved to the notorious Avin prison today. [...]
Three days Iran’s Revolutionary Guard arrested the Kurdish musician Jamal Amini in his home in Saghez. After arresting Amini the Revolutionary Guard confiscated his music instruments and a couple of CD’s that Amini has recorded in Kurdish.
It is believed that Amini was arrested because he played music and sang songs that glorified the Kurdish [...]
The Alliance for Kurdish Rights has released a great video (watch below), which captures the feeling that many Kurd’s have. The organization has also launched a campaign called “Remembering Kurdish Prisoners” in which they follow the case of different Kurdish prisoners in different parts of Kurdistan. Visit the website www.kurdishrights.org for more information.
No one have heard from the Kurdish university teacher, Shafigh Bohrani, who was summoned to interrogation by Iran’s Intelligence Service “Itlaar” six days ago in the Kurdish city of Mehabad.
Friends and family members of Bohrani believe that the Itlaat might have arrested him due to his political beliefs. Bohrani was a teacher at the Azadi [...]
In four different cases, four Kurdish activists, by the names of Shahpoor Zerdoi, Yahia Moradweisi, Asdoallah Doniai and Nasih Hassanzade, were sentenced to prison on charges of being members of Kurdish opposition parties.
Shahpoor Zerdoi, originally from the Kurdish city of Kamiyaran, was sentenced to two years in prison by the Revolutionary Court in Mariwan.
Yahia Moradweisi [...]
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard arrested the Kurdish student Afshin Kermian twenty days ago in his home in the Kurdish city of Krmanshan. Since then Kermians family have not received any information about his whereabouts or what he is charged with.
The family is concerned that something might have happened to their son and despite several attempts to [...]
Abbas Kakai was arrested after an interrogation connected to the National Student Day protests on the 7th of December.
Kakai’s family have been in contact with the regimes officials about their son, and according to Kakai’s family they have been told that Abbas Kakai will be killed because he is “traitor”.
Abbas Kakai was student at the [...]
