Security forces recently arrested Kurdish civilians Simko Maroufi, Anvar Ebrahimzadeh, Awat Alipour and Hazhar Abdollahpour in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, as part of an ongoing crackdown on Kurdish activists and civilians.
Alipour, from the village of Sheykhlar in Bukan, was arrested in his village on the evening of 1 July, while Ebrahimzadeh was arrested simultaneously in Bukan.
On 30 June, security forces raided the home of Maroufi, a former political prisoner and environmental activist, in Bukan and arrested him without a warrant.
Meanwhile, two weeks have passed since the arrest of Hazhar (Amir) Abdollahpour by Ministry of Intelligence agents, and his whereabouts remain unknown.
Abdollahpour was arrested on 18 June after a raid on his family home in Bukan’s Ashayer neighbourhood, and was subsequently transferred to an intelligence detention facility in Orumiyeh.
According to statistics compiled by the KHRN, more than 254 Kurdish civilians and activists have been arrested since the recent Israeli attack on Iran.
These arrests have taken place across the provinces of Ilam, Kermanshah, Kurdistan, and West Azerbaijan, and have been carried out by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
