Arrest of a young Kurdish man for holding a placard "I am not voting"

11:01 - 14 February 2020

 On Tuesday, February 11th, a young Kurdish man named Azad Azizi, son of Omar, from Urmia, was arrested by intelligence forces and taken to an unknown location due to holding a placard which was written " I am not voting" .

 A relative of this Kurdish youth told the Kurdistan Press Agency: This man was arrested shortly after he hold the placard which is written in Kurdish and Azeri.

 This informed source said that the young man had been beaten by intelligence agents during his detention.

 Azad Azizi was taken to an unknown location after his arrest and so far his family has been unsuccessful in finding out about his fate.

 This young Kurdish man who was also arrested in 2018 and interrogated for ten days at the Urmia Intelligence detention on charges of "cooperating with one of the Kurdish opposition parties of the Iranian government."