At least 11 more detained in Ilam Province, total arrests reach 43

Hengaw – Saturday, January 3, 2026

At least eleven Kurds, including three minors, have been detained by Iranian government forces across Ilam Province and transferred to undisclosed locations, bringing the total number of arrests in the province to 43 over the past three days.

Hengaw has identifie those detained as Mohammad Taha Zeinivand, Peyman Hassanvand, Amin Shokripour, Shahrouz Shokripour, Reza Heidari, Esmail Zoharabi, Rahim Sadeghi, Ali-Mohammad Hayati, Reza Seifi, Ilya Ghasemi, and Ehsan Maleki.

Zeinivand, a 17-year-old from Darreh Shahr, was detained by government forces earlier on Saturday, January 3, 2026.

Five residents of Darreh Shahr, Hassanvand, Amin Shokripour, Shahrouz Shokripour, and Heidari, 20, along with Zoharabi from the village of Armu, a rural district of Darreh Shahr, were detained by government forces on Friday evening, January 2.

On the same day, Sadeghi and Haq-Nazari from Sarableh, Hayati, 33, from Dehloran, as well as Seifi, 14, and Ghasemi, 13, two children from Dehloran, were detained by security forces and transferred to undisclosed locations.

Maleki, a 34-year-old from Ilam, was detained by security forces and transferred to Ilam Central Prison on Wednesday, January 1.

According to data recorded by the Statistics and Documentation Center of Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, at least 43 individuals have been detained by Iranian government forces in the cities of Darreh Shahr, Abdanan, Dehloran, Ilam, and Sarableh over the past three days.