Hossein Kamangar

He was arrested in the collective arrest of environmentalists and members of the Vahdat Melli (Iran National Union Party) in Kurdistan.

<coverage-outsourcing id='5100'> He was arrested again, alongside a number of other residents of Kamyaran. He was sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment in Sanandaj Revolutionary Court. He was released from this facility seven months after his arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5098'> He was arrested by security forces following an inspection of his residence in the city of Kamyaran </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23905'> During a raid in early 2019 that lasted several days, a number of civil and environmental activists in Kamyaran, Sanandaj and nearby cities were arrested by the agents of the Intelligence Ministry. In days that followed, few officials connected these arrests to the murder of an ambulance driver called Koohsar Fatehi and even asked for capital punishment for them. These officials included Molatofiq Qorbani, Sunni Friday Prayer leader of Kamyaran; Khalil Azizi, head of the Kamyaran City Council and Hossein Khosheqbal, deputy provincial governor of Kurdistan. They said the activities of the arrestees -- a number of whom were members of the National Unity Party -- was a cover to aid PJAK. PJAK issued a statement to deny this claim. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) also published a report on the arrests and said the reason for them was the government’s continuing attempt to suppress civil society in Kurdistan. Based on this report, security forces once told the family of Koohsar Fatehi that those who murdered their son were members of a Kurdish party and had been killed in an IRGC operation. But KHRN doubts that Fatehi’s murder was political. Among the arrestees are those who were known for environmental or civic activism and numerous reports have been published detailing their civic activities. In the weeks that followed, the IRGC also came to the fore and arrested more environmental activists and also members of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party. Data collected by the IPA shows that security bodies are not happy about civil activities in Kurdistan province and arrest of civil activists in the region has become a norm </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='25632'> According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, during his arrest, he has had no meeting or phone call with family </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='25913'> According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, he started his hunger strike on this day. Few days after repeated sit-ins by his family in front of the Intelligence Ministry, they were told that Hossein Kamangar was in a hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='26054'> A number of Twitter users used the hashtag #Hossein_Kamangar to support him </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='26053'> His nephew, Borhan Kamangar, was arrested </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='26103'> Contacted his family on the phone for the first time since his arrest. He had been transferred to Kamyaran’s intelligence detention house a few days earlier </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='26116'> According to KHRN, he was transferred to Kamyaran prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='27101'> Prosecutors had ordered the temporary arrest to be turned into bail but the intelligence authorities repealed this order </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='28246'> <reference source='http://kurdistanhumanrights.net/fa/?p=11284'> Was sent to Sanandaj Prison for unknown reasons. According to a report by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, the intelligence authorities are trying to execute him on the conviction of ‘Baqi’ (insurrection) </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>