May 2, 2026; During the past few days, Yousef Kolonkzadeh, a Kurdish language translator and instructor from Urmia, was arrested by security forces and transferred to an unknown location.
May 2, 2026; On the morning of Saturday, May 2, 2026, Mizan News Agency, affiliated with the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic, reported the implementation of the death sentences for Naser Bakrzadeh and Yaghoub Karimpour, two prisoners…
May 1, 2026; Alan Hekmatirad, an English language teacher from Mahabad, was arrested by security forces on April 7, 2026, and is being held in Naqadeh Prison in a state of uncertainty under a temporary detention order.
April 30, 2026; Following the confirmation of the death sentence of Naser Bakrzadeh, a Kurdish political prisoner, by the Supreme Court and the increased risk of execution, and following the publication of his family's advocacy video in…
April 30, 2026; After 23 days since the arbitrary detention of “Shelir Mam-Qaderi,” a 34-year-old Kurdish woman from Mahabad, the latest information indicates that she is being held in Urmia Prison. Reports obtained from inside the prison…
April 30, 2026; During the past few days, a Kurdish citizen from the Village of “Nastan” in Sardasht, Province of West Azerbaijan, named “Kamran Rasoulnezhad,” was arrested by security forces and transferred to an unknown location.
April 30, 2026; Following more than a week since the arbitrary detention of a Kurdish citizen from Naqadeh named “Mamand Khodadadi,” there is still no information available regarding his fate or place of detention.
April 30, 2026; Sasan Azadvar Junghani, one of the protesters arrested during the January 2026 protests, was executed in Isfahan. The media of the Islamic Republic of Iran published this news without mentioning the exact location of the…
April 27, 2026; While the military conflict between the United States-Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran is in its nineteenth day of ceasefire, the wave of drone attacks by the Islamic Republic of Iran on the headquarters and political…
April 27, 2026; one day after the third upholding of the death sentence of Nasser Bakarzadeh, a Kurdish political prisoner held in the Central Prison of Urmia, by the Supreme Court, the parents of this prisoner released a video filled with…
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