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Iran: Parents of two leaders of the
Kurdish student movement
15.1.2008
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January 15, 2008
Sanandaj, Iranian Kurdistan,-- Iranian
security forces have arrested the parents of two
leaders of the Kurdish student movement.
Fatemeh Ghoftari, mother of Yasser Gholi, a Kurdish
student arrested three months ago, was arrested in
Sandandaj in Iranian Kurdistan on Monday morning by
two agents from the ministry of intelligence.
Ghoftari was accused of producing anti-Islamic
propaganda and for criticising the conditions of her
son's imprisonment in radio interviews broadcast
from western cities.
Modares Omarzadeh, father of Farzad, a student from
Mahabad University who has since escaped abroad, was
also arrested.
Omarzadeh was summoned to government offices in
Orumieh in Iranian Azerbaijan,www.ekurd.net
where he was taken to
prison for "complicity in the escape of his son".
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Iranian Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistana Īranź or
Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) or Rojhilatź
Kurdistan (East of Kurdistan)) is an unofficial name
for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has
borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes the
greater parts of West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan
Province, Kermanshah Province, and Ilam Province.
Kurds form the majority of the population of this
region with an estimated population of 4 million.
The region is the eastern part of the greater
cultural-geographical area called Kurdistan.
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The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Kurdish
(Hīzbī Dźmokiratī Kurdistanī Źran) is a Kurdish
opposition group in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks
the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a
democratic federal republic of Iran.
The current
General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan is Mustafa Hijri
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The present leader of the organisation is Haji
Ahmadi. According to the Washington Times, half the
members of PEJAK are women, many of them still in
their teens, and one of the female members of the
leadership council is Gulistan Dugan, a psychology
graduate from the University of Tehran. This is due
primarily to the fact that PEJAK is strongly
supportive of women's rights. PEJAK believes that
women must have a strong role in government and must
be on an equal level with men in leadership
positions.
Since 2004
The Iranian Kurdish rebel group PJAK (PEJAK) (Party
of Free Life of Kurdistan) took up
arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdistan
province northwestern of Iran. Half the members of
PEJAK are women.
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