Khorasan: Kurdish Researcher, and Writer Goli Shadkam, Threatened by Iranian Security Agencies
Hengaw: Saturday, July 20, 2024
Goli Shadkam, a Kurdish researcher born in Quchan, Khorasan, who has recently moved to Canada, has been threatened by Iranian Security Agencies, particularly the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Intelligence.
According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Goli Shadkam, a Kurdish social science research expert residing in Canada, has recently faced increasing threats from the IRGC Intelligence. She previously served as an advisor to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Registration Office of Khorasan Razavi province.
Hengaw's sources indicate that over the past few months, her family members, friends, and even colleagues in the cities of Bojnurd, Mashhad, and Karaj have been pressured by Iranian security agencies. They have received repeated phone calls, interrogations, and threats to stop Goli Shadkam from social media activism and seeking information about her place of residence and plans to return to Iran.
Goli Shadkam told Hengaw: "These threats have intensified since the Iranian parliamentary elections, the death of Ebrahim Raisi, and the presidential election due to my posts on the subjects of mandatory hijab, boycotting sham elections, and systemic oppression of women and Kurds, on Instagram and Kurdish Telegram groups in Khorasan. I am certain that returning to Iran under any circumstances would have serious consequences."
It is noteworthy that Goli Shadkam has been summoned and threatened by Iranian security agencies multiple times in the past due to her cultural and research activities.
This researcher has authored several books, including "Three-Line Kurdish Poems of Kurmanji Khorasan" with Professor Jalil from the University of Vienna (published in 2012), "Sociology of Tribes and Nomads of Iran," "Kurdish Proverbs of Khorasan," a bilingual Kurdish-Persian children's book titled "Pachesor," and "Dew Dew," a book of children's songs. She also has several other books ready for publication, including "Kurmanji-Persian Dictionary of Khorasan," "Kurdish Kurmanji Riddles of Khorasan," "Clothing of Kurds in Khorasan," and a children's storybook titled "Sheynali."
Additionally, in her field research, she has collected over 25,000 words, phrases, and idioms of Kurmanji Kurdish from Khorasan, 2,500 folklore songs from Kurdish nomadic villages and neighborhoods of Khorasan, 200 folklore songs titled "Charok," 200 Kurdish Kurmanji riddles of Khorasan, 200 Kurdish legends of Khorasan, 2,000 Kurdish proverbs of Khorasan, and 50 children's folklore songs of Kurmanji Kurdish from Khorasan.
