Iranian security forces arrested Kurdish environmental activist Armin Esperlous on the street in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 29 September.
They took the activist to the detention centre of the intelligence ministry without a court order.
After the family of the environmental activist appealed to the Sanandaj court, the prosecutor’s office announced that he had been detained for a month.
On 29 September, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) published a report on the arrest of two other environmental activists, Salah Hossein-Panah and Salar Salehi, in the cities of Baneh and Sanandaj.
Meanwhile, the activist’s wife, Faranak Jamshidi, who was transferred to the Juvenile Detention Centre in June to serve a one-year sentence, was sent on temporary leave a few days ago.
Previously, on 21 February 2019, Armin Esperlous was arrested during a mass arrest of environmental activists and members of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party. He was released on bail two months later.
In March 2020, a court sentenced him to three months and one day in prison on charges of “acting against national security.”
