According to the Hana Human Rights Organization, between 1 to 10 December 2025, at least 30 Kurdish citizens, including one woman and 29 men, from the cities and villages of Sanandaj, Piranshahr, Orumiyeh, Oshnavieh, Bukan, Sahneh, Mahabad, Naqadeh and Sardasht, as well as one citizen from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, were arrested by security forces of the Islamic Republic and transferred to undisclosed locations without any notification to their families. Verified information shows that the arrests were carried out mostly without judicial warrants and, in some cases, accompanied by raids on the detainees’ homes. Families have so far not been informed about the whereabouts or legal status of the detained individuals.
On Monday, 1 December 2025, a Kurdish woman named Aziza Moradi from Sanandaj was arrested.
On Tuesday, 2 December, two Kurdish citizens, identified as Shahram Najari from Delou village, Orumiyeh, and Keyvan Rasouli-Azar from Oshnavieh, were detained by intelligence forces.
On Wednesday, 3 December, four Kurdish citizens, namely Mohammad Osloubi and Kamal Osloubi from Piranshahr, Hirash Parnia from Naqadeh and a resident of Cheshmeh Gol village, Oshnavieh, and Seyed Esmail Seyedmahmoudian from Oshnavieh, were arrested by security and IRGC intelligence forces.
On Thursday, 4 December, the arrests continued with three Kurdish citizens identified as Hassan Shadikhah from Singan village, Showaneh Ebrahimi from Alkawi village and Shoresh Servati from Neliwan village in the Oshnavieh area. They were transferred to unknown locations.
On Friday, 5 December, four Kurdish citizens were detained. They were Soleiman (Mohammad) Esmaeili from Amirabad in Bukan, Ahmad Zerang from Goloulan, and Diyan Rasoulpour and Diyar Haji Rasoulpour from Bukan.
Reports indicate that on Saturday, 6 December, five Kurdish citizens were arrested. They were Yahya Miri from Sahneh, Seyed Abdollah Ne’mati from Sanandaj, Aram Jamshidoun from Mahabad and Ahmad Khodadad and Mahmoud Khodadad from Naqadeh.
On Sunday, 7 December, five more Kurdish citizens were arrested. They were Omid Badi from Bukan, Mohammad Mostafa from Mahabad, Sina Shakhsi from Sardasht, Heiman Rahimi from Naqadeh and Omar (Rooske) Ahmad, a citizen of the Kurdistan Region who had traveled to Rojhelat to prepare a report on the Bait and Heyran festival.
Arrests continued on Monday, 8 December, when four Kurdish citizens identified as Kaveh Koleh and Qader Koleh from Kani Rash village in Bukan district, as well as Kazem Azadeh and Nasser Azarm from Mahabad, were taken into custody. On the same day, Semko Yousefi, a Kurdish language teacher from Bukan, was also detained but released after several hours of interrogation.
Finally, on Wednesday, 10 December, a Kurdish citizen named Saman Ghorbani from Mahabad was arrested by security forces.
The series of arrests recorded over the ten-day period, all involving Kurdish citizens across various parts of Iranian Kurdistan, highlights the continuation of a security-driven and repressive approach. The broad geographical scope of the arrests, the high number of detainees and the lack of transparency in legal procedures have raised serious concerns about violations of fundamental rights. Denial of access to lawyers, cutting off families from their relatives and transferring detainees to undisclosed locations have intensified fears regarding violations of due process and legal safeguards. This ongoing pattern, which has become more pronounced in recent years, underscores the need for oversight by human rights bodies and the importance of accountability by the authorities.