As the Hana Human Rights Organization first reported on the arrest of the two citizens: On Tuesday, May 31, 2022, Massoud Farhikhteh delivered a critical speech at a protest rally of union activists protesting the arrest, prosecution, and propaganda of the Radio and Television against trade union activists in Kurdistan and the Security agencies arrested him.
Also, Majid Karimi, the secretary of the Sanandaj and Kalatarzan Teachers' Union, who had gone to the IRGC intelligence with other teachers the same day to follow the situation of Mr. Massoud Farhikhteh, was arrested and abducted by several plainclothes men in a white Peugeot.