Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish activists Amjad Geryakhiz and Ghaneh Khateri were sent to Sanandaj Central Prison on 7 July to begin serving sentences issued by the Islamic Revolutionary Court. Labour rights activist Geryakhiz was sentenced by Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, to six months in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state” and “inciting shopkeepers to strike”. The court had also sentenced...

Kurdish labour rights activist Amjad Geryakhiz has been sentenced to six months in prison and handed a two-year suspended sentence by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the court convicted Geryakhiz on charges including "propaganda against the state", and formally notified him of the verdict on 7 June. Geryakhiz, from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, was arrested...