Kurdish civil rights activist Sakar Eini has been released from Orumiyeh Central Prison on 10 February, after a year of temporary detention.
He has reportedly been released on bail of 2 billion Tomans – nearly 80,000 USD.
The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested Eini in Iran’s northern Karaj on 9 January 2021 during a wave of arrests of Kurdish activists and civilians.
They took him to the IRGC’s Haft-e Tir detention facility in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province.
After six months, on 1 June 2021, he was transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison, with a temporary arrest order.
The Kurdish activist contracted covid-19 in June 2021 but was denied access to medical care.
The cases of Eini and two other detainees, Farzad Samani and Mohammad Houshangi, was sent to Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad, in West Azerbaijan province, on charges of “armed insurrection” (baghi) through “membership in a Kurdish opposition party”.
The judge had refused to hear the case for a year, citing the lack of investigation as an excuse.
Eini is a graduate of architecture from the University of Orumiyeh.
