Iranian forces have arrested five more Kurdish citizens as part of a broader wave of arrests targeting Kurdish citizens and activists across several provinces, taking them to undisclosed locations.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has reported that Shaho Hashempour, from Oshnavieh in West Azerbaijan Province, was arrested by security forces in the city on 14 December.
The following day, on 15 December, four citizens from Piranshahr in the same province – Taher Bapiran, Siamand Esmaeili, Hazhar Tourji and Rezgar Khanpayeh – were arrested without warrants.
KHRN’s data indicates that, over the past two weeks, the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Intelligence have arrested at least 39 Kurdish citizens and activists across Marivan, Bukan, Orumiyeh, Piranshahr, Mashhad, Kermanshah, Mahabad, Oshnavieh, and Naqadeh.
All detainees are being held without access to legal counsel or contact with their families.
KHRN has learned that while two individuals were transferred to Mahabad Prison in recent days, the whereabouts and condition of most of those detained remain unknown.