Iranian security forces have arrested at least 10 Kurdish citizens in Tehran, and the cities of Baneh and Saqqez in Kurdistan Province in recent days, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported.
On 19 August, two civil rights activist brothers from Saqqez, Milad and Nariman Rendani, were beaten and arrested for the second time in the past year.
Milad was released after spending a few hours in detention at the Ministry of Intelligence’s detention facility in Saqqez, but Nariman’s fate remains unknown.
On the same day, four other men from Saqqez — Omid Rahimzadeh, Mehdi Kamali, Zakaria Moradi, and Mohammad Aminpour — were arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence and transferred to its detention centre in Sanandaj.
On 20 August, security forces arrested Ramin Rostami and Ehsan Rostami, who are from Harsin in Kermanshah Province, at their family homes in Tehran without warrants.
At the same time, security forces shot and detained Houshyar Shabani, a former political prisoner, near Kani Sur in Baneh County, Kurdistan Province. He was arrested after being hit by a bullet.
During the same operation, Omid Ahmadpour, the owner of the vehicle driven by Shabani, was also arrested.