Kurdistan Human Rights Network

IRGC Intelligence arrests former political prisoner in Sanandaj

Benyamin Rahimpour, a former political prisoner, was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, on 21 January and taken to Shahramfar Detention Centre, a facility controlled by this military-security body. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that IRGC intelligence agents raided Rahimpour’s shop and arrested him without a warrant. During the operation, the agents confiscated...

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