Hengaw – Monday, August 17, 2026 Iranian security forces have arrested Matin Rasouli and Hadi Khezri, two Kurdish men from Piranshahr and Oshnavieh (Shno), respectively. Both remain incommunicado, with no information available about their current condition. According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Rasouli was arrested in Piranshahr on Sunday, August 16, 2026, and taken to an undisclosed location. Khezri, 27, from Haq village in Oshnavieh, was detained by Intelligence Department forces on the evening of Saturday, August 15, while returning home. He was arrested on a street in the city without a warrant and transferred to a security detention facility in Urmia. Both men have been denied access to a lawyer, family visits, and phone calls, while their families’ efforts to obtain information about them have so far been unsuccessful. Authorities have not disclosed the reasons for their arrests, the charges against them, or Rasouli’s place of detention

Hengaw – Tuesday, August 18, 2026 Kaveh Rafoosheh, a 35-year-old Kurdish man from Sanandaj (Sine), was executed in the city’s Central Prison despite a public protest outside the facility the previous night, where residents and civil society activists called for the execution to be halted. According to information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Rafoosheh was executed in the early hours of Tuesday, August 18, 2026. He had been transferred to solitary confinement on Sunday, August 16, in preparation for the execution. Informed sources told Hengaw that Rafoosheh had been involved in a street altercation in Sanandaj about three years earlier that resulted in a killing. He subsequently turned himself in to law enforcement authorities and was sentenced to death by a Sanandaj Criminal Court on the charge of “premeditated murder.” Videos obtained by Hengaw show residents and civil society activists gathering outside Sanandaj Central Prison on the evening of Monday, August 17, chanting “No to executions” and calling for the execution to be halted while efforts were made to secure clemency from the victim’s family. Despite the protest, the judiciary carried out the execution early the following morning.

پارسا مصلحی‌فرد، آهنگساز جوان و از بازداشت‌شدگان اعتراضات دی‌ماه ۱۴۰۴، از سوی شعبه ۲۹ دادگاه انقلاب تهران به ریاست قاضی سیدعلی مظلوم، به اتهام «تبلیغ علیه نظام» به یک سال حبس محکوم شد. جلسه رسیدگی به اتهامات او ۲۸ تیرماه سال جاری برگزار شد و حکم محکومیت وی روز دوشنبه ۲۶ مرداد اعلام شد. مصلحی‌فرد ۷ بهمن ۱۴۰۴ در جریان موج بازداشت‌های مرتبط با اعتراضات سراسری دی‌ماه بازداشت شد. به گفته یک منبع نزدیک به خانواده او، سیم‌کارت این شهروند همچنان مسدود است و وسایل الکترونیکی او نیز تاکنون به خانواده‌اش بازگردانده نشده است. پارسا مصلحی‌فرد، متولد ۱۳۷۹ و ساکن تهران، پیش‌تر نیز در جریان اعتراضات ۱۴۰۱ به دلیل فعالیت‌های هنری و اعتراضی خود بازداشت شده بود. صدور حکم حبس برای این آهنگساز در حالی صورت می‌گیرد که نهادهای حقوق بشری بارها نسبت به برخوردهای قضایی با هنرمندان و فعالان مدنی پس از اعتراضات سراسری در ایران ابراز نگرانی کرده‌اند. #پارسا_مصلحی_فرد #دادبان Parsa Moslehifard, a young composer and one of the detainees of the January 1404 protests, was sentenced to one year in prison by Branch 29 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Seyyed Ali Mazloum, on charges of “propaganda against the system.” The hearing of his charges was held on July 18 of this year, and his sentence was announced on Monday, August 16. Moslehifard was arrested on February 27, 1404, during a wave of arrests related to the nationwide protests in January. According to a source close to his family, this citizen’s SIM card is still blocked and his electronic devices have not yet been returned to his family. Parsa Moslehifard, born in 1990 and residing in Tehran, was previously arrested during the 1402 protests for his artistic and protest activities. The issuance of the prison sentence for this composer comes at a time when human rights organizations have repeatedly expressed concern about the judicial treatment of artists and civil activists following the nationwide protests in Iran. #Parsa_Moslehi_Fard #Justice