The Ministry of Intelligence has arrested two Kurdish men in Saqqez and Bukan and taken them to undisclosed locations, as part of a broader wave of detentions targeting Kurdish citizens in recent weeks.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Yousef Ghorbani was detained in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, on 13 July. His current whereabouts remain unknown, and he has been denied access to legal representation and contact with his family.
Despite repeated inquiries by Ghorbani’s family, the authorities have refused to provide any information about his status.
In a separate incident, Asaad Sedighi, a member of the Halo mountaineering group, was arrested without a warrant on 16 July when Ministry agents raided his family home in the village of Kavmeleh in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. l
Since the Israeli attack on Iran and the subsequent announcement of a ceasefire, over 318 Kurdish activists and other citizens have been arrested across the provinces of Ilam, West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah, Tehran and North Khorasan by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
In addition, dozens of civilians, civil rights activists, former political prisoners, and relatives of activists residing abroad have been summoned to the offices of the Ministry of Intelligence and the IRGC’s Intelligence Organisation and interrogated for several hours.
Although judicial authorities have stated that some detainees have been released on bail, information obtained by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) indicates that most remain in custody without access to lawyers or family visits in central detention centres run by security agencies in Ilam, Kermanshah, Sanandaj, Orumiyeh, Tehran and Bojnurd.
