Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Security forces arrest two activists in Sanandaj, whereabouts unknown

Security forces arrested Kurdish civil rights activist Ayda Amouei and university lecturer Asaad Ghafouri in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, taking them to an undisclosed location on 18 January. According to information received by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Amouei, who was arrested at her workplace without a warrant, had received threatening phone calls from agents of the Ministry of Intelligence prior to her arrest. In a...

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