August 26, 2025 – 48 days have passed since the arbitrary and violent arrest of Khader Rasouli (born 1956) and Clara Rasouli (born 1988), two Kurdish citizens and father and daughter from Mahabad, by security forces. They continue to be…
On August 25, 2025, Shahab Darabi, a well-known blogger known as “Yuz Asia,” a protesting truck driver and one of the participants in the truck drivers' strike in early June of this year, was sentenced to 3 years and 1 day of discretionary…
The Kurdistan Education Department’s Administrative Violations Board, followed by the Ministry of Education’s Appeals Committee, through an unfair and non-independent process, have issued and subsequently upheld or intensified severe…
On Wednesday, August 19, 2025, in the aftermath of the violent and bloody arrest of Houshyar Shabani, a former political prisoner and Kurdish civil activist from Baneh—who was shot in the leg by security forces—another young man named Omid…
On Wednesday, August 19, 2025, Houshyar Shabani, a former political prisoner and Kurdish citizen from Baneh, was shot and violently arrested by security forces. He was injured and subsequently taken to an undisclosed location without a…
On August 19, 2025, Kianoush Cheraghi, a Kurdish political prisoner from Dehloran and one of those arrested during the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi uprising, was sentenced by Branch 101 of the Criminal Court Two of Dehloran, presided over by Judge…
August 27, 2025 – Rafiq Mostafaei, a 42-year-old Kurdish citizen from Mariwan, has been temporarily released on heavy bail after 25 days of arbitrary detention.
On Monday, August 24, 2025, a Kurdish kolbar (cross-border porter) named Milad Tabad, from the village of Geliyeh in Mariwan County, was injured by gunfire from government military forces near the border of the region.
Hamid Chapati, a Kurdish civil activist from Urmia, has been sentenced to six months of discretionary imprisonment by Branch 23 of the Appeals Court of West Azerbaijan Province. The ruling was officially communicated to him on August 18,…
Pouria Nasiri, an undergraduate law student at Islamic Azad University of Mahabad, has been sentenced by the Revolutionary Court of Mahabad to three months of suspended imprisonment for a duration of two years.
Kurdistan Press Agency
