According to reports received by Avatoday, on Monday and Tuesday, December 15 and 16, 2025, four Kurdish citizens from Abdanan in Ilam Province, one of the regions of Iranian Kurdistan, were arrested by forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry.
According to reports received by Avatoday, on the evening of 5 December 2025, Qader Younes‑Pour, a Kurdish civil activist and former political prisoner from Oshnavieh, in Iran’s West Azerbaijan Province, was attacked with a sharp weapon by three unknown individuals and
According to a report received by Avatoday, Omar Ahmad, known as “Reswoka,” a 43-year-old journalist from the Iraqi Kurdistan-based media outlet “Ava Media,” and his accompanying filming team were arrested on 6 December 2025 during the second day of the “Beit & Heyran” festi
Navid Khoshnegar, a 26-year-old Kurdish citizen from Izeh, was arrested on the morning of Saturday, 6 December 2025, while visiting the intelligence office of the city to follow up on his confiscated mobile phone and laptop.
Amjad Salehzadeh remains in a state of uncertainty. According to a report received by Avatoday, on Saturday, December 6, 2025, the temporary detention order for Amjad Salehzadeh, a 38-year-old Kurdish citizen from Saqqez, was extended for another month.
According to reports received by AvaToday, four Kurdish citizens from Bukan — Sleiman (Mohammad) Esmaeili, Diyar Haji-Rasulpour, Diyan Rasulpour, and Ahmad Zerang — were violently arrested following a raid by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and transferred to an unknown location
According to reports received by Avatoday, on the evening of Tuesday, October 28, 2025, Khezr (Shamal) Rasoul-Marwat, a former Kurdish political prisoner and civil rights activist from the Kurdish city of Mahabad, was arrested at his home by Iranian intelligence agents
According to reports received by Avatoday, only a few days after the dismissal of Zeytun Kahezadi, the principal of Ferdowsi Girls’ Elementary School in the city of Javanrud, Kermanshah Province, another educator,
According to human rights sources, Zahra Saidianjou, the sister of Milad Saidianjou, one of the victims of the revolutionary movement “Woman, Life, Freedom” in Izeh, has been summoned to Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Ahvaz.
According to reports received by Avatoday, on the evening of Friday, October 24, Iranian border guards opened fire on a group of Kurdish Kolbars near the Baneh border area.
