"Alireza Sepahi Laeen", a prominent Kurdish writer and poet resident in Khorasan Province (East of Iran), has being held in detention after 4 months and his family is under pressure and intimidation.
An activist in the field of human rights was held in detention by The Intelligence Agency in Mariwan( Kurdistan Province - Iran ).
On Sunday, October 23, 2011, the environmentalist Veria Khosravi was arrested in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Provience. Veria Khosravi is a member of Green Society of Kurdistan.
Iranian security forces raided a birthday party held at a traditional café in Tabriz and arrested 31 young men and women.
Fifty such people have been summoned to appear before magistrates courts in Tehran and other major cities, accused of helping the BBC to produce a series of films that the intelligence services believe to be ‘harmful to national security’.
Based on a report by semiofficial Fars News Agency related to the addiction treatment camps; despite claims by the relevant agencies to oversee the health camps in Iran, moral corruption and drug abuse in the camps continues.
Iranian judiciary and security system have arrested more than 142 Kurdish political and cultural activists throughout Kurdistan areas during the last 3 months. Based on various reports from reliable websites, in mostly of the Kurdish cities…
Recent statistics obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat confirm that 186 children and 98 women have been killed since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution on 15 March. The youngest Syrian child killed during the revolution was just 2 months old,…
Eleven Afghani workers kidnapped, gang-raped and murdered a child laborer in a region known as Pardis in the city of Karaj, Alborz Province, Iran. According to a report, on Saturday, October 22, 2011, an anonymous caller contacted the…
After Hossein Saleh Nejad, the former head of the Science and Industrial University Bassij Department was appointed as the head of the School of Architecture at this university, a wave of insulting treatments of students started at this…
Kurdistan Press Agency
