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Within Two Days, Six Citizens Arrested in Piranshahr

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Anvar Ebrahimi, Fardin Mahmoudi, Hiwa Shojaei, HRANA, Mohammad Sohrabi, Morad Ostavar, Nemat Ahmadnejad, Piranshahr

HRANA News Agency – On Sunday and Monday, January 19 and 20, 2025, at least six individuals were arrested by security forces in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan province.

According to HRANA, quoting Kurdpa, on Sunday, security forces arrested a citizen in Piranshahr identified as Hiwa Shojaei, a 34-year-old resident of the city. The arrest reportedly occurred at his workplace without a judicial warrant.

Additionally, on Monday, January 20, 2025, security forces detained five more individuals in Piranshahr: Mohammad Sohrabi, Fardin Mahmoudi, Morad Ostavar, Nemat Ahmadnejad, and Anvar Ebrahimi.

Among the detainees, Sohrabi, who was previously arrested during the nationwide protests of 2022, has a history of legal confrontations and convictions due to his activism.

As of the time of this report, there is no information about the reasons for the arrests, the detainees’ whereabouts, or the charges against these six citizens.

2 Prisoners Executed in Urmia Prison

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Executions
Afshin Shokati, Ali Valizadeh, Anvar Ebrahimi, Central Prison of Urmia, Morteza Bagherzadeh

HRANA News Agency – Two prisoners, who had been charged with murder, were hung in the Central Prison of Urmia. Two other prisoners with the same charges had been transferred to the solitary confinement for retaliation sentences, but managed to obtain a deadline and were returned to their ward.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), two prisoners, charged with murder, were hung in the Central Prison of Urmia on February 28, 2017. Continue reading “2 Prisoners Executed in Urmia Prison”