The Court of Appeals of Iran’s West Azerbaijan province has commuted the eight-year prison sentence of Kurdish political prisoner Saeid Tabnak to four years and two months in prison.
The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Oshnavieh had sentenced the political prisoner to eight years in prison.
It had charged the prisoner with “acting against national security” through “membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI)”.
On 4 July 2020, security forces arrested Tabnak in Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan province, and took him to the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province.
On 10 October 2020, he was released on bail after his interrogation ended.
A few months later, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Oshnavieh sentenced him to eight years in prison.
In late August 2021, Saeid Tabnak was imprisoned in Naqadeh Prison to serve the sentence.
