Two Kurdish human rights activists from the 'Kurdistan Human Rights Organisation' (RMMK) were arrested by Iranian forces in the city of Mahabad in eastern Kurdistan. Saman Resulpur was arrested at 00:30 (00:30 am GMT+3.30) on Tuesday, August 9 in his house in the Sehrek district of Mahabad. During the raid the Iranian soldiers seized Resulpur's computer, all his CDs, video and audio cassettes and a great number of his books. The other RMMK-member Zeyneb Bayezidi was arrested at the same time when soldiers raided her family's home in Mahabad. After searching through the house, the soldiers arrested Bayezidi together with her little sister, her father and her brother named Aso. It was also reported that several family members were seriously beaten and injured during the raid.
Meanwhile, it's been reported that the leading oppositional journalist Akbar Ganji has now ended the hunger strike which he started on July 11. When he exactly ended his hunger strike was not reported. Ganji was jailed in 2001 and sentenced to six years in prison after writing regime-critical articles. |