Iranian forces continue arresting pro-independence Kurdish demonstrators
Iranian intelligence agents and security forces have continued to arrest and interrogate civilian Kurds who had taken part in celebrations after a referendum on Kurdish statehood was held in neighbouring Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region.
KHRN has obtained names of some of those Iranian Kurds detained and questioned at various detention centres of the Iranian security forces in some of the main Kurdish cities and towns.
Some of the detained Kurds questioned by intelligence officers were forced to make written pledges to not take part in any such celebratory events, although the issue is related to Kurdish politics in another country.
One of the detained, according to KHRN sources, is a Kurdish woman who was a political prisoner in the 1980s.
Iranian government gunmen wound two civilian Kolbar workers
Iranian border guards have wounded two unarmed civilian Kolbar workers in the Iranian Kurdish Sardasht area on the Iraq border.
Gunmen of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards opened fire on a group of civilian Kurdish Kolbar workers and wounded Kolbar Siamand Rastguo.
He was taken to a hospital in Orumiyeh to receive medical treatment.
A week earlier, Iranian border guards opened fire on unarmed civilian Kurdish Kolbar workers in the area and wounded Khadr Sepandar near the village of Bitoush in the Sardasht area.
He was also taken to a hospital in Orumiyeh, where he underwent an operation to treat his severe injuries.
According to KHRN data, the Sardasht area has been Iranian Kurdish region’s deadliest place for Kurdish Kolbar workers, as Iranian forces have killed and wounded 18 Kurdish Kolbar workers in this area alone in 2016.
Read more: http://kurdistanhumanrights.net/en/two-kolbars-wounded-in-sardasht-borders-last-week/
Iranian forces continue arresting Kurdish activists in Sanandaj
Iranian security forces arrested Kurdish labour activist Foad Zandi in Sanandaj on 2 October and confiscated some of his personal belongings before taking him to the the city’s detention centre run by agents of the intelligence ministry.
The authorities have not yet commented on why this labour rights’ activist was detained.
Iranian forces previously arrested him with his brother Aram Zandi several times earlier this year.
Judge Saeedi of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj sentenced the brethren to four months behind bars on charges of acts against Iran’s national security, propaganda against the state and membership in a coordination committee to form a labour rights’ organisation.
Read More: http://kurdistanhumanrights.net/en/continued-arrests-of-kurdish-labour-activists-in-sanandaj/
Iranian border guards impose strict curfew in Nosoud
Iranian border guards have imposed a night curfew after 2100 local time in an area situated between Paveh and Nosoud cities because of military drills taking place further ahead in the inner streets of Nosoud.
The armed guards had reached the city after “a rigorous verbal quarrel between Kolbar [workers] and the the border guards in the Ghalaga area of Nosoud, where the guards attempted to seize the Kolbars’ items,” a source said
The Iranian government forces opened fire amid the verbal argument and wounded a Kurdish Kolbar worker, identified as 25-yeyar-old Farzad Ghaderi, according to the source.
Read More: http://kurdistanhumanrights.net/en/iran-pressure-on-the-citizens-of-nosoud-by-border-regiment/
