Iranian security forces detained Kurdish civil activist Dana Lanjabadi on 20 February in the city of Marivan (Mariwan in Kurdish), where a local court explained his charges as that of “propaganda against the state” and ordered his one-month detention for investigation at the local branch of the intelligence ministry, Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learnt from its sources.
The security forces that detained him in Marivan of Kurdistan province had not presented an arrest warrant. He was held at the detention centre of the intelligence ministry before being taken to the city’s Islamic Revolutionary Court, which informed him of his charges and one-month detention back at the intelligence ministry’s detention centre.
Lanjabadi was summoned and detained multiple times in the past years due to his civil activities.
In 2012, after the protest of students at Payame Noor University in Marivan against the execution of three Kurdish political prisoners, he was detained and sentenced by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Marivan to one year in prison for “propaganda against the regime”, and to eight months in prison and 50 lashes for “disturbing public order.”
He was also deprived of continuing his education at Payame Noor University under pressure from the Marivan intelligence office.
