Arrest of a labor activist in Sanandaj

12:13 - 16 September 2019

Kurdpa Agency: plainclothes forces detained a worker activist from Sanandaj and transferred him to an unknown location.

 According to a report released by the Kurdistan Press Agency on Friday, September 13th, a labor activist named "Nabaz (Kaveh) Kianpour" from Sanandaj was detained by plainclothes forces affiliated with the Intelligence forces and taken him to an unknown location.

 The detention of this worker was carried out without any legal authorization and there is no information on his arrest.

 on the other hand, On Thursday, September 12th, four Kurdish citizens, Farhad Nouri, Safar Nouri, Parviz Nouri and Ali Azizi, from the village of "Anbi"  in Targavar Rural District, after twenty-seven days in the IRGC detention center, They were transferred to Urmia Central Prison.

 These four Kurdish citizens were arrested by intelligence forces in August this year on charges of "cooperating with one of the Kurdish opposition parties of the Iranian government".