Security forces have carried out a series of arrests across Kurdish cities in recent days, detaining at least nine Kurdish citizens in Marivan, Orumiyeh, Oshnavieh, Piranshahr, and Bukan.
Meanwhile, judicial authorities in Mahabad have extended the detention orders of two Kurdish detainees for a further month.
On 1 December, security forces arrested Azizeh Moradian, a resident of the village of Tangisar in Sanandaj who lives in Marivan, without a warrant at her workplace and took her to an undisclosed location.
Moradian has since been denied the right to contact her family or access legal representation.
On 2 December, security forces detained Shahram Najjari, from the village of Dalow in Orumiyeh, without a warrant at his home and taken to an undisclosed location.
On the following day, 3 December, forces arrested Shwana Ebrahimi, from the village of Alakava in Oshnavieh, and Esmaeil Seyyed-Mahmoudian, a Ministry of Agriculture employee in Oshnavieh, also without warrants and at their homes and took them to undisclosed locations.
In the early hours of the same day, agents of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) raided the home of Mohammad Osloub in Piranshahr and arrested him without a warrant.
His brother Kamel, who objected to the officers’ conduct and the warrantless arrest, was also detained but released after several hours, while the fate and location of Mohammad Osloub remain unknown.
On 4 December, Shorsh Sarrouti, from the village of Nalivan in Oshnavieh, was also detained without a warrant and his whereabouts remain unknown.
On the same day, security forces arrested Hassan Shadi-Khah, from the village of Sengan in Oshnavieh, at his family home.
At 01:00 local time on 5 December, security forces stormed the family home of Mohammad Esmaeili in Bukan’s Mirabad neighbourhood, arresting him without a warrant and beating him during the operation.
Officers confiscated several personal belongings, including mobile phones and books, and later raided his private orchard outside the city, firing multiple rounds at the windows and door of the orchard house.
Meanwhile, judicial authorities in Mahabad have extended the detention orders of Keyvan Seyyed-Ahmadi and Salar Khalifehzadeh for a further month.
Seyyed-Ahmadi was transferred to Mahabad Prison on 3 December after spending 35 days in the Intelligence Ministry’s detention centre in Orumiyeh. Khalifehzadeh, arrested on 29 October, was moved to the same prison after spending 17 days in the same facility.
