Kurdish Civil Rights activists under pressure

Following his arrest, guards and agents searched his parents' home, where he lives. The guards told the Lanjabadi family that they should contact the public relations department of the Ministry of Intelligence for any news on their son.

Dana Lanjabadi is a student at the Payawm’eh Noor University in the city of Sanandadj, and is an environmental activist. Also on Saturday, civil rights activists Haiman Biglar and Arash Mowloodi were summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence in Marivawn and held for several hours. Both Biglari and Mowloodi are students at Marivawn’s branch of Payawm’eh Noor University and are also environmental activists. According to the local sources, in the past few days, many civil rights activists have been under pressure or arrested and taken to the the office of intelligence in Marivan. Iran Human Rights was told by the close friends of these activists that they were summoned for questioning in relation to their participation in a peaceful protest against death penalty.