DOZZAAP (ZAHEDAN) The Campaign for Baloch Activist reported on Saturday that Iranian intelligence agencies have arrested a Baloch woman on Saturday, January 30 from Zahedan – the capital of Iranian occupied Balochistan.

The detained woman has been named as Rahimeh Kurdi Tamim wife of political activist Amir Hamzeh/Hamza Raisi.

She has returned to Iran six months ago and was interrogated by the intelligence service at the time.

Ms. Kurdi Tamimi was detained by security forces for three days at the time and was eventually granted bail and released because she was pregnant and close to her due date.

After her release on bail, she was continuously threatened by the intelligence agencies of Iran that in case of contacting with her husband she would be arrested.

Sources reported that the intelligence Office in Dozzaap (Zahedan) had summoned the Baloch woman urging her to be present at their office on Friday. But after failing to do so, the next day, intelligence agents raided her home and arrested her and took her to the detention centre.

Ms. Tamimi was reportedly detained for 24 hours in the quarantine cell at Intelligence Office in Zahedan, after which she was transferred to one of the wards of the women’s prison. There was no further information available on the exact ward in which she has been transferred and her family has not been informed about her condition.

The Campaign for Baloch Activists quoted a source as saying, “Ms. Tamimi’s child is only five months old and is being cared for by the grandfather at present. The baby has congenital heart defect because the baby was born with a septal defect (hole in the heart) and is physically frail.”

The intelligence service also arrested two of Hamzeh/Hamza Raisi’s brothers, Abed and Ruhollah Raisi previously, to pressure the Baloch political activist.

Abed was held for 75 days in an isolated cell of the intelligence service a few years ago, and his family was very worried about his disappearance. However, when the family learned about his whereabouts they managed to get him released on bail.

The two brothers are still under the watch of the intelligence service and Ruhollah was lately detained and interrogated on 21 December 2020 in Balochistan’s Geh city.

According to the Campaign for Baloch Activists, the arrest of the wife of a civil activist in Balochistan is unprecedented, adding that “earlier they had also received reports of summoning and threatening members of Baloch activists’ families.”

Iran has recently increased executions of Baloch activists as well as extra-judicial arrests, threats to family and collective punishment against those who have family members living abroad in its effort to pressurise them to return to Iranian occupied Balochistan.