Bojnurd; Detention and imprisonment of a singer and a judo champion in Bojnurd Prison; Mehdi Pakmehr, singer, and Hossein Jafari, judo champion

January 27, 2026; Mehdi Pakmehr, a singer, and Hossein Jafari, a judo champion, are two Kurdish citizens from Bojnurd in North Khorasan province who have been detained. With 10 days having passed since the detention of Mehdi Pakmehr and one month since the detention of Hossein Jafari, these two citizens are being held in Bojnurd Prison in a state of limbo and without access to fair judicial proceedings.

An informed source, while confirming this news to Kurdpa, stated: Mehdi Pakmehr, 40 years old and a Kurdish singer, has been detained for more than 10 days, and Hossein Jafari, son of Norollah, 19 years old, from the Kurds of Bojnurd in North Khorasan, an Iranian judo champion and member of the national judo and Kurash team of Iran, has been detained for more than a month; both are being held in Bojnurd Prison in a state of limbo and without a fair trial.

Until the publication of this news, no information is available regarding the reasons for the detention and the charges leveled against these individuals, and security agencies arrested these two citizens without providing a judicial warrant at the time of their