Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has sentenced Seyvan Ebrahimi, a Kurdish language teacher and a member of the board of directors of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, to a total of 11 years in prison.
Ebrahimi received the verdict on 2 December, according to which he was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of “forming groups and factions with the aim of undermining national security” and to one year for “propaganda against the state”, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.
The activist faced trial on 3 November, in the first branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, presided over by Judge Karami.
Meanwhile, his other sentence of one year in prison, exile to Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, and 40 lashes, handed down by Branch 106 of the Sanandaj Criminal Court in August, has been commuted to one year of imprisonment in Sanandaj Central Prison and 40 lashes by the Court of Appeals of Kurdistan Province.
Ebrahimi was initially arrested at the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on 3 January, while following up on 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.
In a related case, Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj – presided over by Judge Karami – had sentenced Srwa Pour-Mohammadi and Edris Menbari, two other members of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, to ten years in prison in October.
The activists were charged with “forming or participating in groups or associations with the aim of undermining national security”.
