In the continuing wave of pressure and suppression targeting teacher union activists in Kurdistan, 15 Kurdish teacher union activists were summoned on Sunday, June 1, 2025, to Branch 109 of the Sanandaj Criminal Court (Second Class) on…
On Saturday, May 31, 2025, Adel Pirouzi, a political prisoner from the village of Sardoush, a rural district of Marivan, was released on furlough from Marivan Prison after posting bail of 200 million tomans (approximately $4,000 USD).
On Saturday, May 31, 2025, Afshin Saeedi, a Kurdish citizen from Bukan, was transferred to the city’s prison to begin serving his prison sentence.
In the early hours of Monday, May 26, 2025, five Kurdish citizens—Hiwa Ahmadi, Soran Soltani, Rahim Ghodrati, Mohammad Zabihi, and Edris Alimohammadi—residents of Saqqez, were arrested by security forces and transferred to a local security…
On Sunday, May 26, 2025, Saman Karimi, a former political prisoner previously sentenced to death, and his wife, Farzaneh Rashidi, were violently and arbitrarily arrested by security forces. Eight days later, there is still no information…
On Wednesday, May 29, 2025, a 27-year-old kolbar (cross-border porter) named Mehran Fattahi, from Baneh, was wounded by gunfire from government forces at the border of this town.
On Wednesday, May 28, 2025, Sheikh Zahid Shahabi, brother of Sheikh Azad Shahabi, was released from Saqqez Prison on bail after 66 days of arbitrary detention.
On the evening of Monday, May 26, 2025, Jalal Faraji and Rojin Khoran, two Kurdish citizens from Ziveh Township, located in the Margavar district of Urmia, were arrested by security forces and transferred to an undisclosed location.
Zhiyan (Mokrat) Miri, an environmental activist from Tangisar village in Sanandaj County, has been sentenced by Branch 1 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court to one year of suspended imprisonment and a fine of 50 million tomans.
On the afternoon of Tuesday, May 27, 2025, Arash Rasouli, a worker from Boridar village in Sarvabad County, lost his life after falling from a seven-story building in Kermanshah.
Kurdistan Press Agency
