Information regarding the fate of detained wounded Iranian Kurdish opposition member Ramin Hossein Panahi and members of his family has remained unknown since he was arrested after armed clashes with Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in the city of Sanandaj on 23 June.
A reliable source spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) about the incident and said that Hamza’s Revolutionary Guards in the Shalaman neighbourhood of Sanandaj on 23 June attacked a Peugeot car.
Two of the passengers who members of the armed Kurdish opposition Komala Revolutionary and Toilers Party and two others were only party sympathisers and did not carry any fire arms.
Three Komala members Sabah Hussein Panahi, Hamed Saif Panahi, and Behzad Nouri, were killed in the clashes.
Hamed and Behzad were only party sympathisers and did not have any weapons.
The IRGC had taken Ramin Hossein Panahi to Sanandaj’s Besat hospital after his arrest for medical treatment.
A few hours later he was relocated to an unknown place and nobody has since heart any information about him.
The IRGC has summoned families of the victims and warned that the families are now allowed to hold funerals ceremonies for the killed.
They have also attacked family house attacked his house in Ghorochia village, in Dehgolan, and arrested some of his family relatives.
IRGC gunmen have also arrested Ramin’s brother Afshin Hossein Panahi, who is a former political prisoner.
The source said Ramin’s sister had also been beaten inside the house that the IRGC had attacked and searched.
“Bodies of the killed have not yet been returned to their families and undercover police have surrounded homes of their families and relatives,” the source said in an interview with the KHRN.
The security forces had returned to the village of Ghorechia on 24 June and arrested four other members of Ramin’s family, including his brother Anwar Hossein Panahi, son-in-law Ahmad Hossein Panahi and his cousin Anwar Hossein Panahi, as well as a distant family relative Zubair Hussein Panahi.
Anwar Hossein Panahi lives in Tehran and was in in the village of Ghorechia for a family visit when the security forces arrested him.
He was released after several hours of detention and interrogation, and the security forces had threatened him not to visit his family again or he would face harsher consequences.
The security forces have given no information to the family regarding the fate and the whereabouts of the detained.
Komala is an Iranian Kurdish armed opposition party, it is a a splinter group of the original Komalah, which led an insurgency against Iranian authorities since the late 1970s.
The Komala party and similar Iranian Kurdish armed opposition, which are based in Iraqi Kurdistan Region, have not been active inside Iran for over 20 years.
However, Komala and other Kurdish groups, including theDemocratic Party for Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), have openly announced since last year that they were to return their armed units to inside Iran’s Kurdish territories.
Kurdish Human Rights Network ─ KHRN