Security forces have arrested four Kurdish civilians, Hossein Firouzi, Hiwa Feyzi, Soran Yousefi and Hamid Azizi, in recent days and transferred them to undisclosed locations.
The detainees, from Saqqez, Bukan, and Kamyaran, remain without access to legal counsel or family visits.
On 2 December, Ministry of Intelligence agents arrested Feyzi and Firouzi , both from the village of Molanava in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province.
Feyzi was arrested while travelling to Saqqez and Firouzi was taken from his family home without a warrant.
The next day, on 3 December, Azizi, a PhD graduate in Communication and Media Studies and a teacher in the villages of Palangan and Gazer Khani in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, was arrested after being summoned to the security office of the Ministry of Education in the city.
Additionally, on 4 December, security forces raided the family home of Yousefi in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, and arrested him without a warrant.
Since their arrest, the security and judicial authorities have refused to provide any information on the status or whereabouts of the detainees, despite persistent efforts by their families to obtain updates.
According to statistics compiled by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), in November at least 21 people, including activists and children, were arrested on political charges by security and judicial authorities in the provinces of Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan and Tehran.
