HRANA – On the evening of Wednesday, October 8, Khaled Ghaderpour (30), Mohammad Ghaderi (27), and Morad-Rasoul Bahrami (36), residents of the village of Tamarchian in Piranshahr County, West Azerbaijan Province, were arrested by security forces and taken to an undisclosed location.

According to HRANA, quoting Kolbar News, the arrests were carried out by security forces without the presentation of a judicial warrant.

As of this report’s publication, no information is available regarding the reasons for the arrests, the detainees’ whereabouts, or the charges brought against them.

Over the past year, HRANA published 585 reports of human rights violations in West Azerbaijan Province, making it the third province with the highest number of HRANA reports on human rights abuses.