Omid Chaubaz and Hadi Bayazidi, two citizens from Bukan, were temporarily released after 20 days in detention and a lack of information about the status of their cases, upon posting bail of four billion tomans each. These two citizens had previously been arrested by security forces without the presentation of a judicial warrant and transferred to the Intelligence Department detention center in Urmia. Of the nine citizens arrested in Bukan during August 2026, seven remain in detention.
According to Kolbarnews, Omid Chaubaz and Hadi Bayazidi, two citizens from Bukan, were temporarily released from prison after 20 days in detention by security institutions, upon posting bail of four billion tomans each. At the same time, seven other citizens out of the nine citizens arrested in Bukan remain in detention.
On Tuesday, September 1, 2026, Omid Chaubaz, a citizen from “Haji-Lak” village in Bukan County, and Hadi Bayazidi, a 22-year-old citizen and civil activist from the city, were temporarily released after 20 days in detention, upon securing bail of four billion tomans each.
According to information received, these two citizens were transferred to one of the security detention centers of the Intelligence Department in Urmia in the first hours following their arrests and were interrogated in solitary confinement cells. After being held in this detention center for 19 days, they were transferred on Monday, August 31, 2026, to the quarantine ward of Bukan Prison and were released on bail one day later.
Omid Chaubaz had been arrested at around 2 a.m. in the early hours of Thursday, August 13, 2026, at his home by security forces without the presentation of a judicial warrant and transferred to an unknown location.
At the same time, security forces raided Hadi Bayazidi’s home and arrested the civil activist without presenting a judicial warrant. During the raid, part of the household property was damaged, and a number of his personal belongings, including his mobile phone and laptop, along with his vehicle, were confiscated and taken away.
In this regard, during August 2026, at least nine citizens were arrested in Bukan by security forces. The names of these individuals have been reported as Omid Chaubaz, Sediq Karimi, Hadi Bayazidi, Pishva Chamani, Esmail Badsar, Zakaria Badsar, Heman Manijeh, Hossein Yousefi, and Hossein Younesi.
Despite weeks having passed since the beginning of these arrests, no precise information has so far been published regarding the charges against or reasons for the arrest of these citizens. The security and judicial institutions of the Islamic Republic have also so far provided no official and transparent explanation regarding the status of their cases.
