Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran detains four more Kurdish civilians in Bukan amid crackdown

Security forces recently arrested Kurdish civilians Simko Maroufi, Anvar Ebrahimzadeh, Awat Alipour and Hazhar Abdollahpour in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, as part of an ongoing crackdown on Kurdish activists and civilians. Alipour, from the village of Sheykhlar in Bukan, was arrested in his village on the evening of 1 July, while Ebrahimzadeh was arrested simultaneously in Bukan. On 30 June, security forces raided the home of...

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