In recent days, two Kurdish Civilians named Safar Nouri and Farhad Nouri were sentenced to one year in prison each by the Orumiyeh Court of Appeals, a reliable source told the Kurdistan human rights network (KHRN).
The two Civilians had previously been sentenced to five years in prison each by the Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh, but the Court of Appeals reduced the imprisonment sentence to 1 year for each of them.
These people, along with two other Civilians from the village of “Anbe” in Orumiyeh, named Ali Azizi and Parviz Nouri, were arrested on Aug 15, 2019, by Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). After 28 days of interrogation in the detention centre of the Orumiyeh IRGC, the four civilians were transferred to the Orumiyeh Central Prison but they were released on bail of 500 million Tomans in the fall of the same year.
The trial of these four Civilians was held in September 2020 in Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh, during which Parviz Nouri Tabareh and Farhad Nouri, Safar Nouri and Ali Azizi were charged with “acting against national security” through membership in a Kurdish party. They were sentenced to one year in prison. Upon contesting the sentence, the case was referred to Branch 13 of the Orumiyeh Court of Appeals and two of these civilians were sentenced to one year in prison while Ali Azizi was acquitted.
