The fate of Kurdish women Parvin (Akhtar) Rasegh Ghezelbash and Zahra Pir-Dehghan remains unknown two months after their arrests by forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organisation in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Pir-Dehghan, 32, from Chaldoran, and Rasegh Ghezelbash, 33, from Maku, were arrested on 25 and 28 June respectively.
They were transferred to the IRGC Intelligence Organisation’s detention facility at the al-Mahdi military base in Orumiyeh.
Over the past two months, their families have repeatedly approached the court, the Ministry of Intelligence and the IRGC Intelligence Organisation in the city, seeking information about their daughters.
However, the security and judicial authorities have continued to refuse to provide any information or explanation about their fate.
At the time of writing, the reasons for their arrests and the charges brought against them remained unknown.