Security forces have arrested four Kurdish citizens in Mahabad, Bukan and Kamyaran, transferring them to undisclosed locations.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that security forces arrested 52-year-old Fattah Yousefpour without a warrant at his family home in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, on 28 October.
Yousefpour, who recently underwent heart surgery, has been denied access to his medication since his arrest.
On the same day, security forces arrested Keyvan Seyyed-Ahmadi without a warrant during a raid on his home in the village of Beyram in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province.
Despite repeated efforts by his family to obtain information about his situation, security and judicial authorities have so far refused to provide any explanation regarding his fate or whereabouts.
On 29 October, Ministry of Intelligence agents raided the home of Zilan Kamangar, a Kurdish woman, in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, arresting her without a warrant.
During the raid, the agents searched the house and confiscated the mobile phones of the family members.
Kamangar is reportedly being held in a detention facility run by security services in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province.
She is the daughter of Hossein Kamangar, a former political prisoner who was released from Sanandaj Central Prison in February 2022 after serving a three-year sentence.
On the same day, security forces also raided the family home of former political prisoner Khezr Rasoul Morovvat (also known as Shamal) in Mahabad at around 02:00 local time, detaining him without a warrant.
Morovvat, a literature expert and former activist student, was previously arrested on 26 February 2013, after participating in a rally in support of Shinabad students outside the Ministry of Education headquarters in Mahabad.
He was interrogated for three months in the Ministry’s detention facilities in Mahabad and Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province.
In October 2013, he was tried without the right to have a lawyer of his own choosing and sentenced to five years in prison by Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Mahabad, presided over by Judge Javadikia, on charges of “acting against national security”.
The sentence was upheld by the Court of Appeal in December the same year, and he was released after completing his sentence in Miandoab Prison, also in West Azerbaijan Province.
Morovvat had also been arrested in August 1999 and sentenced to three years in prison, with an additional five years’ imprisonment suspended, by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Mahabad. He was conditionally released after serving two years, but the authorities later barred him from pursuing a master’s degree despite his successful admission.
