IRGC arrested Kurdish human rights activist in Krmanshar
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard arrested Kawa Ghasemi Krmanshari, a leading member of the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, in his home on Wednesday.
It appears that Krmanshari was arrested in order to prevent him to continue to report about the human rights violations in Iranian Kurdistan and Iran. The regime in Iran has arrested several leading human rights activists and journalists during the last couple of days, just before the anniversary of the 1979 revolution in Iran, which is on the 11th of February.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran describes Krmanshari as “one of the most important sources of objective human rights information and analysis in Iran, and one of the few still courageously working to document, in a scientific way, the deprivation of human rights there”.
Krmanshari, who is 25-years-old, holds a law degree and is a well-known human rights defender, his work is widely recognized for its quality and detail and his personal attention to political prisoners and their families.
Iran’s different security services have pressured the Human Rights Organisation of Kurdistan to halt its activities, several members of the organization have been arrested during the last couple of years, including the founder of the organization Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, who has been in custody since June 2007. Kaboudvand was sentenced to an 11-year prison term; he was convicted solely on the basis of his human rights activities.
