Three Kurdish citizens arrested in Bukan and Oshnavieh
Amidst the ongoing wave of repression and the subsequent arrest of Kurdish citizens by the
Hengaw: Tuesday, August 22, 2023.
Amidst the ongoing wave of repression and the subsequent arrest of Kurdish citizens by the Iranian government institutions, Kurdish citizen, Suleyman Ahmadi from Bukan, along with Samad Shabouyi and Mobin Dahar from Oshnavieh, have been arrested by the Iranian government institutions.
According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization For Human Rights, On Tuesday, August 22, 2023, Iranian government forces conducted a raid on Suleyman Ahmadi’s family home located in Seyyedābad village of Bukan and arrested him.
According to an informed source, Suleyman Ahmadi was previously a member of one of the Kurdish political parties opposing the Iranian government and was arrested without presenting any legal documents.
Simultaneously, Iranian Intelligence forces in Oshnavieh conducted a raid on the village of "Singan," and arrested 20-year-old Mobin Dahar, without the presentation of any legal documents.
Conversely, on Monday, August 21, 38-year-old Samad Shabouyi, from the village of Shahvaneh in the Oshnavieh district of West Azerbaijan (Urmia) province was arrested following being summoned by the Iranian Intelligence Department in this city.
It is worth noting that one of Samad Shabouyi's brothers, named Siamand Shabouyi, who was a political activist and a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), was assassinated by Iranian agents on July 11, 2023, in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government.
So far, precise details about the reasons for their arrest, the charges against them, as well as the current status and whereabouts of these three individuals, remain unknown.