After their arrest, the detainees were transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Orumiyeh, where they were subjected to weeks of harsh physical and psychological torture in order to extract confessions.
Seven Kurdish civilians from Mahabad have been provisionally released on bail from prisons in Mahabad and Orumiyeh, while six others remain in custody in Mahabad Prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported.
Nazanin Elyasi, Shwana (Osman) Jahanifar, Rahman Dana, Yousef Ghal, Abdollah Houshmand, Zanyar Seyyed-Ahmadi, and Hawre Ghoveh were released on bail of 30 billion rials (nearly 30,000 USD) each in recent days, while Ghader Kharamanfar, Salar Shams-Borhan, Jalal Sadafi, Ali Maroufi, Aram Mabzouleh, and Abdollah Ghoveh remain in detention.
According to KHRN, Elyasi was released from the women’s section of Orumiyeh Central Prison on 10 April, while the other six were released from Mahabad Prison on the same day.
Elyasi was arrested on 16 December 2024 after being summoned by telephone to the Ministry of Intelligence office in Mahabad.
Ghoveh and Houshmand were arrested on 28 October 2024 by agents of the Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shohada Base of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Intelligence while travelling in a private car on the Mahabad-Piranshahr road.
On 15 December 2024, Dana and Jahanifar were arrested without warrants during raids by Ministry of Intelligence agents on their homes in Mahabad.
On 14 December 2024, Ministry of Intelligence agents also raided homes in the village of Beyram in Mahabad and arrested Zanyar Seyyed-Ahmadi, Aram Mabzouleh and Yousef Ghal without warrants.
After their arrest, the detainees were transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Orumiyeh, where they were subjected to weeks of harsh physical and psychological torture in order to extract confessions.
The six remaining detainees – Kharamanfar, Shams-Borhan, Sadafi, Maroufi, Mabzouleh, and Abdollah Ghoveh – who were arrested by Ministry of Intelligence forces on 14 and 15 December 2024, were transferred to Mahabad Prison after enduring weeks of interrogation and torture at the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Orumiyeh.
Bail was set at 30 billion rials (nearly 30,000 USD) for Ghoveh and Mabzouleh, but the others remain in custody under temporary detention orders.
All thirteen detainees were denied the right to family visits and access to legal counsel during their time in the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Orumiyeh.
