The Criminal Court of Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, has sentenced Hassan Amini, the brother of Mohammad Amini, one of the victims of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, to six and a half years in prison and 40 lashes. Branch 101 of the Criminal Court of Two in Bukan handed down the verdict on 5 July, charging the civilian with “disturbing public…
Read moreBranch 101 of the Criminal Court Two of Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, sentenced Hashem Saedi, the father of Sarina Saedi, one of the victims of the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, to six and a half months in prison and 40 lashes. The verdict was delivered to Saedi after he appeared at the Bukan court on 3 July, charging him with “disturbing…
Read moreBabak Karimi, a Kurdish civilian who was arrested by security forces during the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Eyvan-e Gharb in Ilam province and released on bail after a few months, has been sentenced to a total of nine years in prison. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the protester was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of “assembly and…
Read moreBranch 28 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran has sentenced Kurdish protester Parham Parvari to a total of 15 years in prison, including 10 years in exile in Jask prison in Hormozgan province, in southern Iran. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Parvari was charged with “enmity against God” (moharebeh), among other charges, for taking part in anti-government protests. “Enmity against God”…
Read moreBranch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan province, has sentenced Sunni Kurdish cleric Zana Khoshaman to two years and one month in prison. According to the verdict handed down to the cleric on 15 June, he was accused of “acting against national security” through his “membership” of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI). Security forces arrested Khoshaman and his wife Sinour…
Read moreThe Special Clerical Court in Hamadan, in north-west Iran, has in recent days convicted Sunni Kurdish clerics Loghman Amini and Ebrahim Karimi Nanaleh for voicing support for the recent anti-government protests. The clerical court sentenced Amini to 11 years in prison, two years of life in exile in Ardabil, in the northwest, permanent revocation of his clerical status and a permanent ban on giving sermons. Nanaleh…
Read moreBranch 36 of Tehran’s Appeals Court recently upheld the five-year prison sentence of Kurdish artist Sasan Chamanara. The artist had previously been sentenced to prison by Branch 29 of Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court. On 12 June, he was summoned to serve the sentence by Branch One of the Enforcement of Judgements Office of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Tehran’s 33rd district. Chamanara, who is from…
Read moreBranch 113 of the Criminal Court Two in Orumiyeh, in north-western Iran, last week sentenced Fakhraddin Ebrahimi, son of the executed Kurdish political prisoner Mohyeddin Ebrahimi, to one year in prison and two years of suspended imprisonment. The court charged Ebrahimi, 22, with “damaging the windows of the Appeals Court’s security door”. The civilian was tried in April without the right to a lawyer and was…
Read moreBranch 103 of the Criminal Court 2 in Ilam, in western Iran, sentenced former Kurdish political prisoner Khadijeh Mehdipour to three months and one day in prison on 17 May on charges of “spreading lies online to disturb public opinion”. Mehdipour was previously arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Ilam on 10 October 2021. After two days of interrogation…
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