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Samnak Aghayi

Kurdish students activists inside and outside prisons in Iran continue to face pressure, ‎intimidation and suffering. In the latest round of such tactics, art student Jamshid ‎Bahrami, and psychology student Salam Nabati were both arrested last Saturday in the ‎early morning hours and taken to a yet-undisclosed location. ‎

Security forces surrounded the houses of the two activists at about 6am and after a ‎detailed inspection of their residence took them away, along with much of their personal ‎belongings. The destination or the reason for their detention were not publicly revealed. ‎Even the family members of the two have not been informed of the whereabouts of these ‎two students. ‎

Jamshid Bahrami is a known writer and theater actor in the cultural and artistic circles of ‎the Kurdish Town of Marivan. The arrest of these two individuals brings the total number ‎of Kurdish student activists in detention to ten. Hedayat Ghazali, Sabah Nasri, Yaser ‎Goli, Hana Abdi, Ronak Safarzadeh, Mohammad Saleh Ayubi, Sohrab Karimi, Javad ‎Alizadeh, and Habibollah Lotfi are already behind bars for various charges, and their fate ‎has not yet been determined by the authorities.‎

In a related news, two students from Sanandaj, Hedayat Gazali and Sabah Nasri who ‎have been in prison for seven months were transferred to Tehran’s Evin prison for the ‎second time from Sanandaj.‎