Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish civil rights activist arrested without warrant in Bukan

The Ministry of Intelligence has arrested Esmaeil Sanyar, a former political prisoner and civil rights activist, in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that intelligence agents raided Sanyar’s family home in the early hours of 2 July and detained him without a warrant. He has reportedly been taken to the Ministry of Intelligence’s detention facility in Orumiyeh, also in West...

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