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  I want to share this intriguing news reports and sources familiar with the cases as saying that Iranian authorities had arrested at least eight Kurdish journalists since May 2020. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is urging Iran to stop its imprisonment and harassment of Kurdish journalists amid what human rights groups have denounced as a crackdown on members of the minority group. CPJ’s call comes three months after 36 civil society and human rights organizations denounced “an ongoing wave of arbitrary arrests, incommunicado detention, and enforced disappearances by the Iranian authorities” targeting Iran’s “disadvantaged” Kurdish minority. The groups said that at least 96 members of the community had been arrested since the beginning of the year, including civil society activists, environmentalists, writers, university students, and “individuals with no known history of activism.”.