Security forces have arrested a Kurdish activist as well as three other individuals, including a 16-year-old child, in a series of detentions carried out without judicial warrants, amid a wider wave of arrests targeting Kurdish activists and citizens.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Omid Bagheri, a photographer and environmental activist from Eslamabad-e Gharb in the Kermanshah Province, was arrested on 14 December, while travelling from Kermanshah to Paveh.
On the same day, Shaho Ebrahimi, from the village of Alkavi in Oshnavieh, was summoned to the local office of the Ministry of Agriculture Jihad under the pretext of completing administrative procedures and was arrested by security forces without a warrant.
His brother, Shwana Ebrahimi, had been detained earlier on 4 December.
Also on 14 December, Shafi Ahmadi, from the village of Balagir, and Seraj Elyasi, a 16-year-old child from the village of Hassanabad (Asnawi) in Oshnavieh, were also detained by security forces in separate arrests.
KHRN’s data indicates that, over the past two weeks, the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Intelligence have arrested at least 34 Kurdish citizens and activists across Marivan, Bukan, Orumiyeh, Piranshahr, Mashhad, Kermanshah, Mahabad, Oshnavieh, and Naqadeh.
All detainees are being held without access to legal counsel or contact with their families.
