Iranian security forces have arrested at least seven more Kurdish citizens in recent weeks, bringing the total number of Kurdish detainees since Israeil’s attack to at least 330.
The detainees – Younes Sharifi, Khedr Rasouli, Clara Rasouli, Kaveh Rahimi, Hassan Aski Baghdadi, Mohammad Parvazeh, and Amir Amjadi – were arrested in Piranshahr, Oshnavieh, Mahabad, Bukan, and Marivan by Ministry of Intelligence agents.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that none of these individuals were shown arrest warrants, nor is there any information available about their fate.
On 1 July, Ministry of Intelligence agents arrested Kaveh Rahimi, 40, at his family home in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, and transferred him to the Ministry’s detention facility in Orumiyeh, also in West Azerbaijan Province.
The Ministry’s agents also arrested Khedr Rasouli and Clara Rasouli – the father and sister of Karo Rasouli, a member of the leadership of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) – in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, on 10 July.
The 69-year-old father, a former political prisoner, and his 39-year-old daughter were then taken to the Ministry’s detention centre in Orumiyeh.
Recently, websites affiliated with the Ministry have accused the two detainees of “espionage for Israel” and announced that videos of their coerced confessions would soon be published.
Amir Amjadi, from Marivan in Kurdistan Province, was arrested by the Ministry’s agents in the city on 18 July.
Similarly, Hassan Aski Baghdadi, a 42-year-old from Piranshahr in West Azerbaijan Province, and Younes Sharifi, from Oshnavieh in the same province, were arrested in their respective cities on 20 and 21 July.
Additionally, on 23 July, Mohammad Parvazeh, from the village of Ney in Marivan, was arrested on the village road by intelligence agents.
Since the Israeli attack on Iran and the subsequent announcement of a ceasefire, over 330 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 citizens, 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.
