Kurdish labour activist Morteza Seydi has been sent to Tehran’s Evin Prison to serve a two-year sentence, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.
The activist was summoned in recent days by Branch Three of the Enforcement of Judgements Office in Qods, Tehran Province, to begin his sentence.
Seydi was originally arrested by security forces in Tehran on 15 April 2022, along with other labour activists, and was provisionally released on bail from Evin Prison on 11 May of that year.
His trial took place on 31 December 2022 and 16 May 2023 at Branch Two of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Shahriar, Tehran Province, presided over by Judge Bahram Panahi, on charges of “forming a group with the intent to disrupt national security”.
On 24 May 2024, the court sentenced him to two years in prison, a decision upheld in full upon appeal in November.
