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UNPO joins global call for urgent action on arbitrarily detained minority rights defenders in Iran 36 civil society and human rights organizations, including the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), have jointly made an urgent appeal to the international community to secure the release of Kudish acitvists and others arbitrarily detained in Iran. The UNPO has long been campaiging for recognition of the grave danger than Iranian minority rights defenders face, both in Iran and overseas. In August 2020, UNPO members from around the world representing some 300 million unreprese...

We, the undersigned 36 civil society and human rights organizations, call for the urgent attention of the international community to an ongoing wave of arbitrary arrests, incommunicado detention, and enforced disappearances by the Iranian authorities, targeting scores of people from Iran’s disadvantaged Kurdish minority in the provinces of Alborz, Kermanshah, Kurdistan, Tehran, and West Azerbaijan.