Akbar Goyli, a Kurdish civil right activist, has been sent to Sanandaj Central Prison to serve a two-year prison sentence on Saturday, Jan 16, an informed source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
This civil rights activist was sentenced to 5 years in prison by the Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on April 14, 2020, on charges of “collaborating with the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK)”. This sentence was changed to 2 years in prison by the Sanandaj Court of Appeal after being contested.
Akbar Goyli was arrested by security forces following in his attendance at the Sanandaj Judiciary and transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Sanandaj on December 07. After being interrogated, he was transferred to Sanandaj Central Prison but he was later released on a bail of 200 million Tomans in late February. He had previously been arrested by security forces in Sanandaj on August 20 last year but he was released on September 7, on a bail of 500 million tomans.
Amir Goyli, the brother of this political prisoner who was arrested by security forces on February 7 last year and released on bail a few weeks later, was initially sentenced by the branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj to five years of suspended imprisonment on charges of “collaboration with a Kurdish party”. The sentence was reduced to 2 years of suspended imprisonment by the Court of Appeal.
