A Kurdish female activist detained during the latest mass arrests of Kurdish activists in Iran has been transferred to prison while another released on bail, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
Kurdish architect and activist Asrin Mohammadi, who was arrested in the first day of the arrests on 9 January in Tehran and held in the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Al-Mahdi base in Orumiyeh, has been transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison on 16 February.
Separately, Kurdish activist and English instructor Darya Talebani, who was arrested on 9 January in Mahabad, by the Intelligence Organisation of the (IRGC), has been released on bail on 15 February.
Talebani faces the charge of “collaborating with one of the Kurdish opposition parties”. She was transferred to Mahabad Prison on 6 February, after nearly a month of detention and interrogation in the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC in Al-Mahdi base in Orumiyeh.
More than 100 Kurdish civilians and activists have been detained in various cities by the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC and the Ministry of Intelligence in more than a month. So far, 13 of these people have been released on bail, but dozens more are still being interrogated in the secret detention centres of the two security agencies in the cities of Orumiyeh, Sanandaj, and Marivan. Of these, five female activists Asrin Mohammadi, Azimeh Naseri, Rozhin Mohammadpour, Fariba Ahmadi and Roya Jalali are still held in temporary detention.
