Kurdish activists Isa Feyzi and Danyal Rahmani have reported being subjected to physical and psychological torture by Ministry of Intelligence interrogators in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, aimed at extracting forced confessions, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.
The two men, who were arrested by Ministry of Intelligence forces in Kamyaran on 6 June, met their families for the first time on 29 June, more than three weeks after their detention.
During the meeting at Kamyaran Prison, they said they had repeatedly been transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Kamyaran, where interrogators tortured them to extract confessions. Both men remain in solitary confinement at Kamyaran Prison, KHRN has learned.
A source close to the family told KHRN: “Isa Feyzi has developed numbness in his hand as a result of torture. Danyal Rahmani has also been beaten several times by security interrogators.”
The families of Feyzi and Rahmani have approached the Kamyaran judiciary seeking an investigation into the torture allegations, but no action has so far been taken.
Feyzi and Rahmani were detained alongside Kajal Rahmani after Ministry of Intelligence forces raided their family homes in Kamyaran on 6 June.
The Rahmani siblings are members of one of Kurdistan’s dadkhah families (a Persian term for victims’ family members and survivors seeking truth and justice).
Kajal Rahmani, who is held in solitary confinement at Sanandaj Women’s Prison (Juvenile Detention Centre), went on an 18-day hunger strike in protest at her unlawful detention and that of other family members, the humiliating conduct of security forces during the arrests, and pressure by interrogators to fabricate cases against them.
The temporary detention orders of all three activists have been extended in recent days, although the decision has not yet been formally communicated to them in prison.
Their case has been opened at Branch Three of the Kamyaran Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office on the charge of “membership of opposition groups abroad”.
The three had previously been issued 20-day temporary detention orders.
