November 11, 2026; According to a report received by Kurdpa, security forces from the Intelligence Department on the evening of Tuesday, November 3, 2026, concurrently with the arbitrary arrest of "Aram Vafaei," a Kurdish citizen from Bukan, also arrested his father "Osman Vafaei" for wearing "khaki Kurdish attire." En route to transferring him to the Bukan Intelligence Department, these forces forcibly stripped off his Kurdish clothes, forced him out of the vehicle in his underwear at midnight, and abandoned him in the street. Security forces also took his Kurdish clothing with them.

According to an informed source speaking to Kurdpa, upon seeing Osman Vafaei's khaki Kurdish attire, security forces confronted him, questioning why he was wearing clothes used by the "Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan" (KDPI). Osman Vafaei responded that this attire is part of the identity and ancestral culture of his people and has no connection to any party. Nevertheless, security forces arrested him as well.

The source further stated that security forces forcibly removed Osman Vafaei's Kurdish clothes en route to transferring him to the Bukan Intelligence Department and left him in his underwear in the street. While hurling insults and profanities, they threatened him that if he wore "khaki Kurdish attire" again, he would face arrest and imprisonment.

On Tuesday, November 3, 2026, at 12:00 midnight, Aram Vafaei, a young Kurdish man from the village of "Abbasabad" in Bukan County, was arbitrarily arrested at his family home by security forces without a judicial warrant and transferred to an undisclosed location. With 9 days having passed since his arrest, there remains no information regarding his fate and whereabouts, and he has been deprived of the right to access legal counsel, family visits, and phone contact with his family.

The Kurdpa Human Rights Organization asserts that this inhumane and violent treatment—comprising the arrest, threats, and criminalization of a citizen for honoring his ancestral identity and culture—constitutes a clear example of torture, degrading treatment, and a flagrant violation of Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the Convention Against Torture. Furthermore, it represents an infringement upon cultural rights and the right to enjoy ethnic identity as stipulated under Article 27 of the ICCPR and Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).