There is no information about the fate of the detained Kurdish civilians Sina Asadi Hakim, Hamid Salehinezhad, Mohammad Karimi and Jafar Ardalan, who were arrested 13 days ago in the village of Deyvaznav in Sarvabad, Kurdistan Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported.

The civilians, including 15-year-old Asadi Hakim, were arrested without a warrant after Ministry of Intelligence forces raided their village on the morning of 5 November and took them to the Ministry’s detention facility in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province.

Since their arrest, they have been denied the right to family visits and legal counsel, and no information has been made public about their situation or the charges against them.

According to KHRN, the security services have reportedly been targeting the family of the youngest detainee, Asadi Hakim, for the past year because of his two sisters’ alleged links to a Kurdish opposition group, and have pressured the family to leave their home village.