Forty-two days after the arrest of Ahmad Khaksar Taraghi, a Kurdish citizen from Shirvan in North Khorasan, no information is still available about his place of detention or condition, and his family remains in complete uncertainty.
According to Kolbar News, on Thursday, January 8, 2026, Ahmad Khaksar Taraghi was arrested by security forces without the presentation of a judicial warrant and transferred to an unknown location. Since then, despite repeated visits and follow-ups by his family with the responsible authorities, no clear response has been provided regarding the status of his case or his place of detention.
According to available information, he has been deprived of the right to access a lawyer, telephone contact, and family visits throughout his detention. At the same time, North Khorasan State Television broadcast a video of his confessions, introducing him as the “leader of the Shirvan protests”; confessions that, according to reports, were obtained as a result of pressure and severe torture.
The broadcast of these forced confessions and the presentation of such charges have increased concerns about the issuance of heavy sentences and serious threats to the life and fate of Ahmad Khaksar Taraghi. He is the father of a daughter waiting for him and is among the Kurmanj Kurds of Shirvan, and the continuation of this situation has placed his family in difficult and distressing conditions.
