Seyvan Ebrahimi, a Kurdish language teacher and a member of the board of directors of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, has been sentenced to one year in prison, 40 lashes and exile to Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah. Branch 106 of the Criminal Court of Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, charged the activist with “disturbing public order”. The trial took place on 8 August with the formal sentence issued…
Read moreFereshteh Mansouri, a Kurdish civil rights activist from Sarableh, Ilam Province, has been sentenced to six months and one day in prison by Branch 101 of the Criminal Court of Chardavol, Ilam Province. Mansouri was convicted of “spreading falsehoods with the intention of disturbing public opinion”. Mansouri’s trial took place on 5 August and she was charged with “spreading falsehoods with the intention of disturbing public…
Read moreBranch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Saqqez, Kurdistan province, recently sentenced civil rights activist Ayoub Javanpour to a total of 15 years in prison. He was sentenced as follows: 10 years in jail on charges of “leading a group of more than two people inside the country with the aim of disturbing national security”, two years for “insulting the Supreme Leader of the…
Read moreBranch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, recently sentenced Kurdish labour activist Habibollah Karimi to three months in prison. The court charged Karimi with “acting against national security” through “membership” of a Kurdish opposition party. According to the verdict, the sentence was commuted to a cash fine of 120 million Iranian rials – nearly 250 USD. The court session took place on 16…
Read moreBranch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has in recent days sentenced Kurdish labour activists Eghbal Shabani, Eghbal Pishkari and Abdollah Kheyrabadi to a total of 51 months in prison. According to the issued verdict, Shabani was sentenced to 30 months in prison, Pishkari to one year and Kheyrabadi to nine months on charges of “acting against national security” through “membership”…
Read moreBranch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has sentenced Mohammad Obaid Haghighian, a former employee of the city court, to three months in prison for “propaganda against the state”. According to the verdict, the sentence was commuted to a cash fine of 400 million Iranian rials – nearly 800 USD. The Ministry of Intelligence arrested Haghighan on 5 February in Sanandaj. After spending…
Read moreBranch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, has sentenced Kurdish labour activists Shadman Abdi, Kamal Karimi and Khabat Mahmoudi to a total of five years and three months in prison. According to the verdict, Abdi was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of “assembly and collusion against national security” and “forming an illegal group to disrupt the national security”. Karimi…
Read moreThe Criminal Court Two of Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, has sentenced Abdolrahman Nasri and Arman Habibi, family members of the victims of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, to six and a half months of imprisonment and 40 lashes each for “disrupting public order”. This is part of the ongoing pressure and sentencing of families of the victims. Earlier, Hassan Amini and Hashem…
Read moreThe Criminal Court One of Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province, has sentenced Farhad Navaei, a 16-year-old student who was arrested by security forces during anti-government protests in the city in November last year, to two years in prison. While the court convicted Navaei of “assembly and collusion to commit crimes against national security”, it also acquitted him of “enmity against God” (moharebeh), which carries the death…
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