Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has sentenced Srwa Pour-Mohammadi and Edris Menbari, two members of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, to ten years in prison. The activists were charged with "forming or participating in groups or associations with the aim of undermining national security", the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The verdict was notified to the activists' lawyers on...

Kurdish civil rights activist Edris Menbari, who is a member of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has been sentenced to one year in prison and 40 lashes on charges of "disturbing public order". Menbari's trial took place on 10 October, in absentia, with neither he nor his legal representatives present, at Branch 106 of the Sanandaj Criminal Court Two, presided over by...