At least 10 Kurdish children kidnapped in the cities of Kurdistan by Iranian government forces

While raiding civilians’ houses, the Iranian government forces abducted 10 Kurdish children named Ehsan Javaheri, Diyako Asadi, Zanyar Asadi ...

07 December 2022 22:48

 

Hengaw: Wednesday, December 7, 2022

While raiding civilians’ houses, the Iranian government forces abducted 10 Kurdish children named Ehsan Javaheri, Diyako Asadi, Zanyar Asadi, Soren Asadi, Mardin Qaderi, Siavash Amini, Mohammad Yousef Mohammadzadeh, Ashkan Nosratiyan, Yazdan Haseli, and Metin Rahmani in the cities of Abdanan, Kamiyaran, Paveh, and Sardasht.

According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, 16-year-old Ehsan Javaheri, and 17-year-old Diyako Asadi were abducted during the attack of the Iranian government forces on the residential houses of "Layan" village of Kamiyaran district on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.

According to Hengaw’s information, at the same time, government forces in the city of Kamiyaran, while kidnapping Zanyar Asadi in the street, attacked and searched the home of this child's family.

Mohammad Yousef Mohammadzadeh (16), Ashkan Nosratiyan (15), and Yazdan Haseli (15), three children from Abdanan, a city in Ilam Province, were kidnapped by Iranian government forces in the evening of the same day.

The report obtained from Paveh indicates that, parallel to what happened in Kamiyaran, the IRGC intelligence forces also abducted two 16-year-old children named Soran Asadi and Mardin Qadri.

In the continuation of child abduction by government forces, on Tuesday, two 16-year-old children, Siavash Amini, from Rabat city, Sardasht county, and Metin Rahmani, from "Ganman" village, were abducted at home.

During the past few days, Hengaw announced the arrest of more than 300 Kurdish students, and so far, including these cases, the identity of 140 of them has been verified.


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