Kurdish sibling Kazhal and Danial Rahmani arrested in Kamyaran

Hengaw – Saturday, June 6, 2026

Iranian Intelligence Ministry forces have arrested Kazhal Rahmani and Danial Rahmani, two Kurdish siblings from the village of Lun in Kamyaran County, following coordinated raids on their family homes in Kamyaran.

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Intelligence Ministry agents simultaneously raided the homes of Kazhal Rahmani and her brother Danial, a computer engineering student at Islamic Azad University of Sanandaj on the morning of Saturday, June 6, 2026. The forces broke down the doors of the residences and arrested both siblings without presenting any warrant.

The two detainees are siblings of Rebin Rahmani, a Kurdish human rights activist and one of the directors of the Kurdistan Human Rights Network. They are also relatives of Jamal Rahmani, a member of the Leadership Council of the Democratic and Free Society of East Kurdistan (KODAR), who was killed alongside two other members of PJAK in an ambush by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the Pirbakh area of Kamyaran on Sept. 7, 2018.

According to Hengaw’s information, the Rahmani family has repeatedly sought information from security institutions in Kamyaran and Sanandaj over the past several years regarding the whereabouts of Jamal Rahmani’s body and the location of his burial. Iranian authorities have consistently refused to provide any answers, a practice that rights groups consider a form of enforced disappearance.

Danial Rahmani, who studies computer engineering at Islamic Azad University of Sanandaj, has reportedly been summoned and interrogated multiple times in recent years by the IRGC Intelligence Organization in Kamyaran.

The arrest of these two siblings comes amid a broader pattern of pressure exerted by Iranian security agencies on the families of political activists and seeking justice, a practice widely viewed as a means of intimidation and suppression.