Iranian security agencies have threatened a Kurdish journalist over the case of Sareh

Sangar Saeed, also known as Sangar Akreyi, a journalist and photographer from Akre, Duhok province in Kurdistan Region, has been threatened by Iranian security agencies and intelligence forces and asked to cooperate with them.
 

According to a report received by Hengaw Human Rights Organization, Sangar Saeed, a Kurdish journalist and photographer with a background in regional and international media, has been constantly threatened by Iranian security agencies, including the Revolutionary Guards intelligence forces in the past months.
 

The Kurdish journalist was involved in the production of the documentary “Life of the LGBT Community in the Kurdistan Region” which was broadcast by BBC Persian TV.
 

“After the arrest of Zahra Seddiqi Hamedani, also known as Sareh, Iranian security agencies, especially the Revolutionary Guards, have constantly sent me messages and threatened me through WhatsApp,” Sangar Saeed told Hengaw.
 

"The Revolutionary Guards intelligence agency, which seized Sareh's mobile phone, sent me some of my pictures that were taken during the production of the documentary, and kept telling me that I am under the surveillance of their forces and that if I do not cooperate with them, I would face an unpleasant fate," he continued.
 

The Revolutionary Guards previously published a documentary in which some unknown girls say they were deceived by the Sareh's gang and taken to Iraqi Kurdistan for prostitution, then they committed suicide after knowing it. The IRGC has now accused Sangar Akreyi of being involved in endangering the girls' lives and of having contact with US-based Iranian journalist Masih Alinezhad and asked to cooperate with them.
 

Hengaw reported on Sunday that Zahra Seddiqi Hamedani, also known as Sareh, 31, from Naqadeh, and Elham Chubdar, 24, from Urmia, both LGBT activists, were arrested in a joint case and have been sentenced to death by the Urmia Revolutionary Court on charges of corruption on Earth and promoting Christianity.
 

Mizan, the official website of the Iranian judiciary, confirmed the news yesterday, in the way the documentary produced by the Revolutionary Guards said, claiming that Sareh and Elham Chubdar were members of a gang smuggling Iranian girls to the Kurdistan Region.