Ayhan Ebrahimi, a Kurdish nursing graduate from Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, was imprisoned in the city’s central prison on 1 July to serve a one-year sentence on charges of alleged “membership in opposition groups”.
Ebrahimi was initially beaten and detained on 8 July 2024, after Ministry of Intelligence agents raided his family home in Orumiyeh, and taken to the Ministry’s detention facility in the city.
After 10 days in custody, he was transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison and later provisionally released on bail of 20 billion rials (nearly 22,000 USD).
In October 2024, Branch Three of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, presided over by Judge Najafzadeh, sentenced him to six years in prison on charges of “membership in opposition groups”.
Following an appeal and the upholding of the sentence by the Provincial Court of Appeal, Ebrahimi filed a request for retrial.
Branch 39 of the Supreme Court overturned the conviction and referred the case to an equivalent court for reconsideration.
In the second round of proceedings, Branch Two of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, under Judge Shahini, sentenced him to one year in prison on the same charge.
