Fate of three detained female Kurdish activists has remained unknown months after their arrest in the city of Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Iran’s Kordestan (Kurdistan) Province.

Zahra (Zara) Mohammadi and Iran Rahpeykar have been detained on a temporary arrest warrant at Sanandaj Correctional Centre, and Parvin Adwawi had been detained for interrogation at a Sanandaj detention centre of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence, according to sources that spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) on condition of anonymity.

The KHRN has been informed that the fate of Zahra Mohammadi is unknown.

She was a civil society activist and a member of the Nozhin Cultural Association before her arrest by security forces at her home in Sanandaj on 23 May 2019.

KHRN was previously told that she was held at the Sanandaj Correctional Centre “without the right to visit and contact with her family”.

She was taken to a detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj several times each week for questioning. Her relatives say that she was under pressure to make false confessions.

Security forces in Sanandaj arrested Iran Rahpeykar, an activist from the Kurdish city of Mariwan in north-western of Iran, on 14 May 2019.

She was transferred to an isolated cell of the Sanandaj Correctional Centre based on a temporary arrest warrant “without any specific charges”. She is still under “temporary” detention.

She is being held under difficult circumstances at the Sanandaj prison despite that she had received medical treatment for respiratory illnesses prior to her arrest.

Another female activist, Parvin Adwai, detained in Mariwan on 27 July 2019, is still being interrogated at a detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj.

She recently made a brief phone call with her family members about her detention and said that she “hoped to be released on a bail of five hundred million Tomans [about $42,000] when her interrogations and her temporary one-month arrest ends.

Until her arrest, Parvin Adwai had campaigned for the rights of women and children and environmental issues.

She also played an active role in following up several cases of child abuse in the village of Celine located in the Iranian Kurdish Hawraman area.