HRANA News Agency – Father of a Yarsan activist, Reza Shahmoradi, who lives in Australia, was summoned to the Intelligence office in Bijar, in Kurdistan Province, and interrogated.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), the elderly father of Reza Shahmoradi, Kurdish Yarsan religious activist, who lives in Australia, is being summoned and interrogated by the Intelligence office in Bijar after every visit with his children abroad.
Reza Shahmoradi, regarding this issue and with reference to the start of these summons told HRANA’s reporter: “Since my parents got their passports and wanted to go to Turkey to meet my other brother, who lives in the United States, they were immediately summoned to provide some explanations.”
Sajjad Shahmoradi, the brother of this Kurdish Yarsan activist, is a former student of Tehran University who left Iran after being detained because of his activities and after getting refugee status left the Turkey and now he lives in America.
This Kurdish Yarsan also pointed to the fact that his father “was summoned again after visiting my brother”, and said that the reasons adduced by the investigators were; “providing full details of the trip and his brother’s situation” and also; “Yarsan issues”.
Shahmoradi also said; “One month ago, also when my parents had gone to visit him, the same story repeated. The interrogator told them; they were allowed to go anywhere they wanted, but before that they had to tell and inform them.”
This Kurdish Yarsan in Australia, by noting that the IRGC activities in the region, emerging issues after 2009, and activities of their children are the reasons for these summons, added: “If I or my brother had some activities, it does not relate to our father. He is an ordinary man who lives in the village and there is no reason to force my father to explain anything to someone.”
Reza Shahmoradi also emphasized that this summon has created “Atmosphere of stress and psychological pressure” on his family and also said that the investigators by noting that “They want to update their information” to his father, has emphasized that “You have to tell us everywhere you want to go.”
