Araz News: On Friday, July 17, 2015, Six national activists of South Azerbaijan were arrested on the way of Babek Castle which is located in Kaleibar city.

Araz News has received reports from reliable source,Abbas Shadmand (from Kaleibar  city), Akbar Abulzadeh (from Ahar city), Fardin Moradpour (from Tabriz city), Behzad Abdi (from Ahar city), Mohammad Rashidi (from Meshkin Shahr city) and Qasem Dashti (from Ahar city) were arrested  by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, commonly referred to as Etelaat at the morning  in the way of Babek Castle which is located in Kaleibar city and were taken to an undisclosed location.

The  Babak Castle is believed to have been built by the ancient Turkic freedom fighters led by Babak Khorramdin in the 9th century and used as a stronghold to put aggressive fight against invasion of Azerbaijan by Arabs.
Recently Babak has become the symbol of Azerbaijani liberation movement against  the Persian regime.

Thus far, the whereabouts of the activists remain unknown and no information about the causes of their arrests have been released.

It is mentioned that these Six national activists of South Azerbaijan were arrested by the security forces and threatened many times.

Araz News will continue to monitor the situation for any further developments.