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 on 22 August.
Ebrahimi has also been charged with “propaganda against the state”. This case is currently pending at Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj, with a court session scheduled for 28 August.
Ebrahimi was previously arrested in the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on 3 January, while following up the case of his wife, Zahra Mohammadi and was released on bail two days later.
However, security forces re-arrested him in Sanandaj on 18 January. He was released on bail after 27 days in the city’s prison.
