Parvin Advaei, a resident of Marivan, who was detained by security forces in January 2025, has been transferred to Sanandaj Correctional and Rehabilitation Center, the women’s ward of Sanandaj Prison.
The civil rights activist was arrested on January 20, 2025, in Marivan and is currently allowed to contact her family once every two days. However, no official information has been released regarding the charges against her or the reasons for her detention.
This is not the first time Parvin Advaei has faced arrest. On July 27, 2019, she was detained by Marivan’s Intelligence Department forces. Following three months of imprisonment, she was released on a hefty bail of 5 billion rials. The Revolutionary Court in Marivan later sentenced her to five years in prison for alleged membership in the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK). The sentence was subsequently reduced to two years by the Provincial Appeals Court.
Parvin Advaei was re-arrested on January 30, 2020, to serve her two-year prison sentence and was transferred to the Sanandaj Correctional Center. On April 6, 2020, after serving approximately six months of her sentence, she was released under the Nowruz Amnesty initiative.
Her recent detention raises serious concerns about the targeting of Kurdish activists and women’s rights defenders in Iran, especially since Pakhshan Azizi and Varisha Moradi, both accused of being members of PJAK, have been sentenced to death.
