Payam Fathi, a labor activist from Sanandaj, was summoned to the city’s Intelligence Office just ahead of International Workers’ Day. According to Kolbarnews, on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, Payam Fathi received a phone call from security forces instructing him to appear at the Intelligence Office at 10 a.m. that same […]
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Mahmoud Salehi, a prominent leader of the labor movement, was assaulted by plainclothes agents in Saqqez on International Workers’ Day. According to Kolbarnews, on Thursday, May 1, 2025, Mahmoud Salehi an influential activist and leader of the Kurdish and Iranian labor movement was attacked and beaten in Saqqez. The report […]
Twenty-eight thousand construction workers in West Azerbaijan province, including 10,000 in the city of Urmia, have been waiting for more than six years to receive social security insurance coverage. According to Kolbarnews, quoting ILNA, in July 2023, only 500 insurance quotas were allocated to construction workers in Urmia. Given the […]
May 1st, International Workers’ Day, is not merely a symbolic date, it is a moment to echo the accumulated rage and silenced struggles of the oppressed, whose voices are heard not through official media, but in the reverberation of bullets and the wreckage left by bourgeois civilization. Under the rule […]
On the verge of International Workers’ Day, pressure on labor activists in Iran has intensified. According to Kolbarnews, on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, Zanyar Dabbaghian, a labor activist and former political prisoner, was summoned to the Intelligence Office in Sanandaj.Reports indicate that the summons came through a phone call from […]
A citizen from Maku County, was arrested by security forces and transferred to an unknown location. According to Kolbarnews, on Sunday, April 27, 2025, a citizen was arrested in Maku County.His identity has been confirmed as Hassan Ahmadi, a resident of Maku. According to the report, Mr. Ahmadi was arrested […]
The conviction of Bayan Salehian, an internal medicine specialist from Saqqez and resident of Urmia, was fully upheld by Branch 9 of the West Azerbaijan Court of Appeals. Previously, she had been sentenced by Branch 111 of the Urmia Criminal Court to five months in prison and a fine of […]
Ehsan Hamzehzadeh, a 17-year-old student from Bukan, was arrested by intelligence forces for participating in Nowruz celebrations and transferred to an undisclosed location. According to Kolbarnews, on Sunday, April 10, 2025, Ehsan Hamzehzadeh, a student from the village of Qalavi and resident of the Mirabad area of Bukan, was arrested […]
Hamid Hoseinnezhad Heydaranlou was secretly executed in Urmia Central Prison. According to Kolbarews and reports from human rights sources and official media of the Islamic Republic regime, the execution of Hamid Hoseinnezhad Heydaranlou, a Kurdish political prisoner, was carried out in secret on the evening of Monday, April 21, 2025 […]
Eight days after the arrest of Mehdi Asadi, a citizen originally from Sanandaj and residing in Tehran, by Tehran’s security forces, there is still no information available regarding his whereabouts. According to Kolbarews, on Monday, April 14, 2025, Mehdi Asadi was arrested by security forces in Tehran and taken to […]