Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish teen remains detained after forced repatriation from Turkey

Seven days after 18-year-old Arya Yousefi was forcibly returned to Iran from Turkey, his whereabouts remain unknown as he is being held by Iranian authorities without any contact with his family. Yousefi, the son of Fatemeh Davand, a Kurdish woman who was previously arrested during anti-government protests in Iran in November 2019, was taken into custody by Iranian security forces at the Maku border in...

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