Reports and videos from Iranian Kurdistan indicate that on Tuesday, February 17, thousands gathered at the graves of victims of the January protests across several cities — including Abdanan, Malekshahi, Eslamabad-e Gharb, Kermanshah, Khorramabad, and Kuhdasht — to m
According to received reports, on Saturday, February 14, 2026, Ali Balaei, brother of slain protester Shirzad Balaei, was arrested by Iranian intelligence forces in Eslamabad-e Gharb.
On February 11, 2026, Ali Nazarzadeh, a 26-year-old Kurdish citizen from Abdanan, Ilam Province, was arrested by forces of the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran and transferred to an unknown location.
Amid the ongoing widespread crackdown in Iran’s Kurdistan provinces, on January 20, 2026, the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) summoned and interrogated for several hours members of the family of Masoud Mirzaei Cheshmeh Gachi, a Kurdish p
Afshin Hosseinpanahi, a civil and environmental activist and the brother of Ramin Hosseinpanahi, who was executed in 2018, was re-arrested on February 10, 2026, by forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Intelligence Organization and transferred to an unknown location.
On February 10, 2026, Khabat Dehdar, a Kurdish labor activist and former political prisoner, was arrested by Iranian intelligence agents and transferred to an unknown location.
According to received information, the organizers of the "Pir Shalyar" ceremony have decided to cancel this
According to reports by the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, Jalal Faramarzi, a Kurdish teacher from Ilam, was summoned to the Intelligence Department of the IRGC after publishing a protest video and calling for a nationwide strike.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has sentenced Pouria Saeedi, a Kurdish protester, wrestler, and former member of the national team, to 15 years of discretionary imprisonment, as part of its continuing campaign of repression against protesters and their families.
According to a report received by Avatoday, Keyomars Vaezi, a retired Kurdish teacher, was arrested on Monday, January 5, 2026, in front of his private residence in the city of Sonqor, located in Kermanshah Province in Iranian Kurdistan, by plainclothes security agents.
