On Friday, her father said that he and others would hold a vigil at Amini's gravesite in the western city of Saqqez to mark the anniversary if the authorities allowed them. According to Kurdish ...

Iran's government forces were reportedly flooding the city of Saqqez, the hometown of Mahsa Amini, on Saturday, the eve of the second anniversary of her death in the custody of the morality police.

She was also arrested by security forces at a checkpoint between Bukan and Saqqez on September 27, 2023, but was released shortly after. Kurdpa reported on August 29 that Hassan Amini, whose ...

In a separate incident, a man was shot and wounded by security forces near the city of Saqqez, in Iran's western Kurdish region. IRNA said he was shot after entering an area under military ...

A year on from the death of Mahsa Amini, members of an underground network of protesters belonging to a grassroots revolutionary group called "United youth of Iran's neighbourhood" have told Sky ...

Male Journalist and Political Activist in Saqqez, 36 Last year, I didn’t understand how things worked, and I imagined the movement would succeed quickly. After the protests ended, I was sad and ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. The URL has been copied to your clipboard Amini's father, Amjad, who lives in her hometown of Saqqez in northwestern Iran's Kurdistan province ...

On Sept. 5, Amini’s family members were taken into custody in their hometown of Saqqez and warned not to call for protests to commemorate her death, local human rights observers reported.

I was a high-school English teacher in Saqqez (in Iranian Kurdistan), where Mahsa Amini lived. We called her “Jina” (her Kurdish name). I know her family well. Saqqez is a small city of 50,000 ...

Two Kurdish people from the western Iranian city of Saqqez have been arrested by Iranian security forces and subsequently transferred to an undisclosed location, a Kurdish rights group based in ...

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A large number of shop owners in the Kurdish city of Saqqez, western Iran (Rojhelat), went on strike on Tuesday, closing their stores for a day in ...

Photos from her family showed a pane of glass covering her tombstone and portrait was smashed at Aichi cemetery in the western city of Saqqez. Her brother posted on Instagram, external that it was ...