The fate of three Kurdish citizens detained by security forces in recent weeks remains unknown, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported.
Security forces arrested Matin Osloubi from Naqadeh, West Azerbaijan Province, Rafigh Mostafaei from Marivan, Kurdistan Province, and Aboubakr Oghabi from Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan Province, in separate incidents in recent weeks.
All three have since been held in undisclosed locations, with no contact with their families or legal representation.
Osloubi, 25, was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Naqadeh on 12 July.
On 1 August, Ministry of Intelligence agents arrested Mostafaei without a warrant while he was working at a brick factory in Marivan.
Three days later, on 4 August, Ministry agents raided several homes in the village of Balagir in Oshnavieh without a warrant.
During the raid, they confiscated Oghabi’s identification documents and later arrested him when he went to the Ministry’s local office to retrieve them.
Since the Israeli attack on Iran and the subsequent announcement of a ceasefire, over 335 Kurdish activists and other citizens have been arrested across the provinces of Ilam, West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah, Tehran and North Khorasan by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
In addition, dozens of citizens, civil rights activists, former political prisoners, and relatives of activists residing abroad have been summoned to the offices of the Ministry of Intelligence and the IRGC’s Intelligence Organisation and interrogated for several hours.
Although judicial authorities have stated that some detainees have been released on bail, information obtained by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network indicates that most remain in custody without access to lawyers or family visits in central detention centres run by security agencies in Ilam, Kermanshah, Sanandaj, Orumiyeh, Tehran and Bojnurd.
Source: ANF News
