CNN) -- A leading Iranian human rights activist and journalist was arrested Wednesday, activists said.

Kaveh Ghasemi Kermanshahi was taken by seven security agents who searched his home and took personal belongings including his computer, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said in a statement.

It is not clear where he is being held.

"Kermanshahi is one of the most important sources of objective human rights information and analysis in Iran, and one of the few still courageously working to document, in a scientific way, the deprivation of human rights there," said ICHRI representative Hadi Ghaemi from New York.

 شیرین علم هولی طي نامه ای  به شرح فشارها و شکنجه های وارد شده بر خود برای گرفتن اقرار و اعتراف به انچه نكرده است اشاره مي كند.

       من در اردیبهشت ١٣٨٧ در تهران توسط تعدادی از ماموران نظامی و لباس شخصی دستگیر شدم و مستقیما به مقر سپاه منتقل شدم. به محض ورود و پیش از هر گونه سوال و جوابی، شروع به کتک زدن من کردند. من در مجموع ٢٥ روز در سپاه ماندم. ٢٢ روز آن را در اعتصاب غذا به سر بردم و تمام آن مدت متحمل انواع شکنجه های جسمی و روحی شدم. بازجوها مرد بودند و من با دستبند به تخت بسته شده بودم. آنها با باتوم برقی، کابل، مشت و لگد به سر و صورت و اعضای بدنم و کف پاهایم می کوبیدند. من حتا در آن زمان به راحتی نمی توانستم فارسی را بفهمم و صحبت کنم. زمانی که سوال های شان بی جواب می ماند، باز مرا به باد کتک می گرفتند تا از هوش می رفتم. صدای اذان که می آمد برای نماز می رفتند و به من تا زمان بازگشت شان فرصت می دادند تا به قول خودشان فکرهایم را بکنم و زمانی که باز می گشتند، دوباره کتک، بی هوشی، آب یخ و ...

January 30, 2010

Peace and Democracy Group Chairman Yaman said: "The AKP government takes revenge by arresting mayors of the provinces they did not win in the elections". He urged the government to stop the operations.

Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Group Chairman Nuri Yaman said in the party's regular weekly general meeting that almost 800 Kurdish politicians were arrested in the course of political operations throughout the last year. Yaman reminded the latest incident when Nuri Güne?, Mayor of I?d?r (a province on the Armenian border) was arrested together with another seven people, among them members of the city council. "The Justice and Development Party (AKP) takes revenge by arresting the mayors of the provinces they did not win in the elections", Yaman argued.

Three years of detention, no convictions - for five Kurdish politically activists in Syria

January 30, 2010

by SK.S

Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD reports that hearings took place at the Supreme State Security Court in Damascus of five young Kurdish men on 26 January 2010:

By: Mostafa Hejri

Following the November 4th demonstrations -particularly the protests on the Day of Ashura by the Green Movement in Tehran- it has become clear that the bulk of this opposition are ardent opponents of the theocratic rule. The slogans heard that day were echoes of slogans against the Velayet-e-Faghih and the dictatorship. Louder and clearer than any others were those slogans that targeted the foundation of this clerical regime of Velayet-e-Faghih.

Those voices forged the beginning of a daunting path for this regime and its leaders who have drenched their hands in the blood of Iranian activists. Theirs are the primary voices targeting this medieval regime which in the past has pretended to perpetuate its indefinite and totalitarian rule, by using its force, power and various ideological theories.