Kurdish civilian Ata (Shamal) Rahmanzadeh was sent to prison on 23 October in Saqqez, Kurdistan province, to serve an 11-month sentence in jail.
Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Saqqez had sentenced him to 11 months in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state”.
Later in September, the Sanandaj Court of Appeals upheld the ruling.
On 21 January, security forces arrested Rahmanzadeh in Saqqez.
He was released on bail after four days.
The Kurdish civilian was previously arrested on 25 September 2020 during a protest rally in Saqqez in support of the referendum on the independence of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
He was released on bail a month later.
A few months later, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Saqqez sentenced Rahmanzadeh to one year in prison.
It charged him with “propaganda against the state” and “disrupting public order.”
Later, an appeals court commuted this sentence to three months in prison.
