The Special Clerical Court in Hamadan, in north-west Iran, has sentenced Sunni Kurdish cleric Hossein Ali-Moradi to 16 months in prison. Ali-Moradi, who is the director of the Ebrahim Khalilollah School of Religious Studies in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, was charged with “acting against national security” and “propaganda against the state”. In April, in a separate case, the court sentenced Ali-Moradi to two years of suspended imprisonment…
Read moreBranch Three of the Razavi Khorasan Province Court of Appeals has upheld the seven and a half year prison sentence of former Kurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh. Parvaneh was deprived of legal representation during her arrest and subsequent trial, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On 31 October, the political prisoner was summoned to the Enforcement of Judgements Office in Mashhad Prison, where she…
Read moreIran’s Supreme Court has upheld a 16-month prison sentence against Osman Esmaeili, a labour activist and former political prisoner, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Today, Esmaeili received a notice from Branch Two of the Enforcement of Judgements Office of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, ordering him to appear in court within ten days to begin serving his…
Read moreBranch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has sentenced Srwa Pour-Mohammadi and Edris Menbari, two members of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, to ten years in prison. The activists were charged with “forming or participating in groups or associations with the aim of undermining national security”, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The verdict was notified to the activists’ lawyers on…
Read moreBranch Four of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, has sentenced environmental activist Yasser Nouri to four months in prison for allegedly engaging in “propaganda against the state”. Nouri’s trial took place in recent days and he was informed of the verdict today, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Nouri, a former political prisoner and environmental activist from Javanrud, Kermanshah Province, was…
Read moreBranch Nine of Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a 62-month prison sentence, plus one day, for Kurdish writer and researcher Mozhgan Kavousi. Presiously, Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sari, Mazandaran Province, sentenced Kavousi to 39 months in prison on charges of “assembly and collusion against national security”, 15 months and one day in jail on charges of “insulting the supreme leader”, and…
Read moreKurdish political prisoner Nayeb Askari, who was previously sentenced to death in absentia by the Branch Two of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, on charges of “armed insurrection” through membership of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), has been sentenced to death again following a retrial request and several in-person court sessions at the same branch. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network…
Read moreSaleh Nikbakht, the lawyer representing the family of Jina Mahsa Amini, has been sentenced to one year in prison and banned from social media for two years by Branch 28 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran. The court, presided over by Judge Amouzad, convicted Nikbakht of the charge of “propaganda against the state”, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Nikbakht’s lawyer, Ali Rezaei,…
Read moreBranch Two of the Kermanshah Criminal Court One has sentenced Yarsani Kurdish civilian Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei to death, payment of blood money, one year of imprisonment and 74 lashes. Rasaei was convicted of “participating in premeditated murder” of Nader Beyrami, the head of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Sahneh, Kermanshah Province, as well as “participating in the intentional infliction…
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