At least 53 Kurdish activists, who were detained in the recent wave of Kurdish civilians and activists in Iran, are still being held in the detention centres of the intelligence office and the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC in the cities of Orumiyeh, Sanandaj, and Marivan.
More than 100 people have, so far, been arrested after the launch of the new wave of arrests on 9 January. Investigations by the KHRN show that 29 of these detained activists were released on bail. While, 10 activists were transferred from the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to prisons in Orumiyeh and Mahabad.
Four civil rights activists Karwan Minouyi, Dana Samadi, Zanyar Motamedi, and Sirwan Karimzadeh, have recently been released on bail after their interrogation period ended at the detention centre of the intelligence organisation of Sanandaj, sourced told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
A number of families of detained activists in the cities of Mahabad, Bukan, Sanandaj, Sarvabad, and Marivan expressed concern about the continued uncertainty about the situation of their children and called for pressures by international institutions and the international community for their release.
According to these families, their children are still being held in the detention centres of the intelligence office and the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC in the cities of Orumiyeh, Sanandaj, and Marivan, and there is no clear information available about the charges against them.
The families of the detained activists were told after appealing in the city courts that detentions of their children had been extended for a second month.
In the past weeks, Azimeh Naseri, Hossein Gardeshi, Soran Hosseinzadeh, Sirwan Nouri, Iman Abdi, Afshin Mam Ahmadi, Farhad Musapour, Fereydoun Musapour, Bahman Yousefzadeh, and Shapol Khezri were transferred from the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC to Orumiyeh Central Prison.
The families of these activists, who were transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison, told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network that they had been charged with membership in one of the Kurdish opposition parties and that the court of Orumiyeh had refused to release them on bail.
