Six young men were arrested in Boukan

16:42 - 2 January 2017
Kurdpa agency: Security and intelligent forces have arrested 6 young men within this autumn season. These arrests took place in a small village of Boukan region.

Kurdpa News agency stated that intelligent officers in Boukan raided Qare Gul of Simineh district and arrested 3 people. They were then taken to anonymous location. This arrest took place at the beginning of the first week of December 2016. One of the detainee is called Hiwa Kaderi, the identity of the other two detainees are still unknown.

According to the same report the intelligent officers searched the house of detainees and they confiscated some personal items.
Further to this report at the end of this October three brothers from the aforementioned village were arrested. The names of detainees were Hemen Hamza Pour, Hussein Hamza Pour and Sabir Hamza Pour.

They were kept in solidarity confinement for more than 40 days.

Furthermore Hussein Hamza Pour is still in custody but the other two were temporarily release with commitment letter taken from them.

Kurdpa has also leant that Qara Gul village is in the state of emergency and commuting in the village are controlled with high security measure.

This atmosphere is allegedly related to the fact that within the last 6 month numbers of young men in this village have joined Kurdish opposition parties. This has made the security and intelligent officials panic.

According to Kurdpa statistic within the period of this summer, more than 60 Kurdish citizens were arrested by the Revolutionary guard in the Iranian Kurdistan. Fate of vast majority of them is shrouded in mystery.