Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish journalist sent to Karaj prison to serve one-year sentence

Azhdar Piri, editor-in-chief of the international monthly Pazhouhesh-e Melal (Nations Research), was sent to Karaj Central Prison on 4 May after being summoned by the enforcement unit of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Karaj, Alborz Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. In late December 2024, Branch Three of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Karaj sentenced Piri to one year in...

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