Mukhtar Asadi, Kurdish Teachers' Union Activist, Arrested by Iranian Security Froces

Hengaw: Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Mukhtar Asadi, a prominent Kurdish teachers' union activist from Sanandaj, was arrested by Iranian security agencies and transferred to an unknown location after reporting to the FATA police. The day before, security forces had violently searched his family home.

According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Monday, August 19, 2024, Mukhtar Asadi was arrested by Iranian security forces after visiting the FATA police in Sanandaj.

A source close to Mukhtar Asadi’s family reported that he went to the FATA police at 12 noon. After two hours of questioning, the judge ordered the confiscation of the mobile phones of all family members, and Mukhtar Asadi was subsequently arrested by the security forces.

On Sunday, August 18, at 6:00 AM, while Mukhtar Asadi was not at home, security forces stormed his family residence in Sanandaj, conducting a violent search that caused terror among his wife, child, and neighbors in the residential complex.

Mukhtar Asadi is a well-known teacher and union activist in Sanandaj, who has been arrested multiple times by the security institutions of the Islamic Republic of Iran and has been sentenced to prison by the judiciary. In recent years, after his mandatory retirement salary was cut, he was dismissed from his teaching job, forcing him to turn to farming for his livelihood.