Kurdish civilian Feyzollah Shadi was arrested by security forces at his workplace in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, on 14 July and released 24 hours later, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.
The arrest was reportedly due to Shadi’s use of the word “martyr” for his uncle in the obituary of his grandmother, Masoumeh Doroudi.
Osman Shafiei, Shadi’s uncle, was a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) who was killed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during a military confrontation in the 1980s.
Ministry of Intelligence agents raided Shadi’s shop on a street in Kamyaran, arrested him without a warrant and sealed his shop.
Although Shadi was released a day later, his shop remains sealed.
