Eight Activists Condemned for Commemorating Forest Fire Victims

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Eight labor and environmental activists were released from custody Wednesday, September 8th after being tried and interrogated for “Disturbing Public Order” and posting a bail of approximately $3000 USD (300 millon Rials).

HRANA confirmed the identities of the released activists: Khaled Hosseini, Mozafar Salehnia, Ali Mirzaei, Vali Nasri, Hajar Saeidi, Hossein Goili, Habibollah Karimi and Reza Amjadi, all residents of Sanandaj (Capital of Kurdistan Province).

Within two days of their trial, all eight were either summoned or detained for having organized a funeral in honor of Sharif Bajour and three other environmental activists who died of smoke inhalation and burns while fighting the Marivan forest fire.

HRANA reported on the arrests of Khaled Hosseini and Mozafar Salehnia on September 4, 2018.

Labor Activists Arrested in Western Iran

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) On Tuesday, September 4, 2018, two labor activists living in Sanandaj (capital of Kurdistan province in Iran) were detained by security forces and taken to an undisclosed location, a close source told HRANA. The source identified the activists as Khaled Hosseini and Mozafar Salehnia.

Hosseini and Salehnia were among five labor activists who were summoned to Branch One of Sanandaj Revolutionary Court on April 28, 2018, shortly before International Workers’ Day (May 1st).

They were previously interrogated on March 5, 2017, by Branch 4 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court for taking part in a Nowruz (Persian New Year) festival organized by a workers’ council in Pardis Hall of Sanandaj.

A Labor Activist Summoned to Intelligence Office in Sanandaj

HRANA News Agency – Mozafar Salehnia, Labor activist, was summoned to the office of Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj and was interrogated.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Mozafar Salehnia, labor activist and board member of the Free Trade Union, was summoned to the office of Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj on 8th February in the morning, and was interrogated from 12 pm to 14 pm. Continue reading “A Labor Activist Summoned to Intelligence Office in Sanandaj”