Six Kurdish civilians, who were arrested during the wave of arrests of Kurdish activists and civilians launched by the Iranian government on 9 January, have been released on bail from Marivan and Oshnavieh Prisons, sourced told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
Civilians Behzad Adwai, Fardin Bayazidi, Seyyed Loghman Taheri, Vahed Sheikh-Mohammadi, Faisal Ali Abadi, and Jabraeil Shabani were arrested by intelligence agents during mass arrests in Sarvabad and Oshnavieh.
Sources say that, on 14 March, Behzad Adwai, a resident of Selin village of Sarvabad, who was detained by security forces in this village on 24 January, was released on bail from Marivan Prison. He was transferred to the detention centre of the Intelligence Office in Marivan on 13 March after his interrogation was completed.
Furthermore, five other civilians Fardin Bayazidi, Seyyed Loghman Taheri, Vahed Sheikh- Mohammadi, Faisal Ali Abadi, and Jabraeil Shabani, who come from Oshnavieh and were detained by security forces in this city on 29 and 30 January, were released on bail. They had been transferred from the detention centre of the Intelligence Office of Orumiyeh to Oshnavieh Prison in the past few days after the end of their interrogation period.
More than 100 Kurdish activists were arrested in various cities with the start of the widespread arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists on 9 January 2021. According to the information available to the KHRN, at least 53 of these people have, so far, been released on bail, and at least 34 detainees are still being held in the detention centres of the Intelligence Office and the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC in Orumiyeh, Sanandaj, and Marivan.
