Two more men arrested in Sabzevar for attending the memorial ceremony of Khosrow Alikurdi

Hengaw — Friday, December 26, 2025

Iranian government forces arrested Qasem Gharaghli and Mahmoud Gharaghli, residents of Sabzevar, for attending the seventh-day memorial ceremony of Khosrow Alikurdi, a Kurdish lawyer and former political prisoner who died under suspicious circumstances.

Information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights indicates that the two men were detained on Thursday, December 25, 2025, by agents of the Intelligence Department of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Mahmoud Gharaghli, 33, and Qasem Gharaghli, 35, are both from Sabzevar, located in Razavi Khorasan province.

According to a source close to their families, the two detainees were transferred after their arrest to the quarantine ward of Sabzevar Prison.

In recent days, several other residents of Sabzevar have also been arrested in connection with their participation in the same memorial ceremony and accused of charges including “propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran” and “assembly and collusion against national security.”

Khosrow Alikurdi, a lawyer and former political prisoner, died under suspicious circumstances in early December.