Security forces have arrested at least nine more Kurdish civilians in recent days as the authorities intensify their crackdown ahead of the second anniversary of the Women, Life, Freedom uprising.
Kurdish civilian Rashed Advaei was arrested this morning without a warrant by security forces at his home in the village of Selin in Sarvabad, Kurdistan Province.
On 8 September, security forces raided the home of Kurdish civilian Mozaffar Daraei in Divandarreh, Kurdistan Province, and arrested him without a warrant.
On the same day, Foad Moradi in the village of Kileh Kabud, Navid Sharifi in the village of Kani Sefid, and Farhad Ghamari and Mohammad Amini in Divandarreh were simultaneously arrested by security forces without warrants.
On 7 September, the Ministry of Intelligence forces arrested 18-year-old Mardin Dehghani without warrant during a house raid in Marivan, Kurdistan Province, and took him to an undisclosed location.
During the raid, security forces also confiscated the mobile phones of the teenager’s mother and brother.
On 5 September, Ali Hosseinpour and Vahed Aboubakri were also arrested in separate raids in the villages of Chianeh and Kandeh Qulan in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, and taken to an undisclosed location.
The arrests come at a time of heightened security ahead of the second anniversary of the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising, a movement sparked by the death of Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in police custody in September 2022.
Over the past week, at least 17 Kurdish civilians have been detained by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organisation in the cities of Mahabad, Oshnavieh and Piranshahr in West Azerbaijan Province, and Marivan, Sarvabad and Divandarreh in Kurdistan Province, and taken to security detention centres of the two security services.
