Sixteen days on, Kurdish activist Ayoub Javanpour remains incommunicado in Saqqez

Hengaw – Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Ayoub Javanpour, a Kurdish man from Saqqez and one of those arrested during the “Women, Life, Freedom” (Jin, Jiyan, Azadi) movement, has remained held incommunicado for the past sixteen days after being taken into custody by Iranian security forces. His fate and condition remain unknown.

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Javanpour, 40, was arrested by Iranian security forces on Monday, August 4, 2025, and transferred to Saqqez Prison.

Sources told Hengaw that on Saturday, August 2, Javanpour was attacked and severely beaten by a group of Salafists, leaving him seriously injured. Two days later, he was arrested by security forces.

No verified information is available regarding the reasons for his arrest, the charges brought against him, or his current situation.

Javanpour was previously released from Saqqez Central Prison on September 29, 2024, after serving one year and three months of his sentence, upon posting bail of 300 million tomans.

This civil activist has also been arrested twice in the past and released after completing his sentences in Saqqez Central Prison.