A Teacher Arrested in Saghez

21:25 - 9 October 2018
Kurdistan Press Agency (Kurdpa): A teacher from Saghez in East Kurdistan (Iranian Kurdistan) was arrested by Iranian Intelligence Service and transferred to an unknown whereabouts.

According to reports received by our agency, Iranian Intelligence forces in Saghez attacked the house of a teacher, Mohammad Saleh Shokri, and arrested him at around 23:00 p.m. on Sunday, the 7th of October.

According to a source close to the arrested, Iranian Intelligence forces have inspected Mohammad Saleh’s house without showing any official permission to do so.

He has been teaching at Saghez’s schools for 24 years, the source said.
Neither his allegation nor his whereabouts has been known yet.

This is the second time he has been arrested; previous time was almost 10 years ago on charge of “cooperation with a Kurdish opposition group”.