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Iran court sentences activist to 28 months in prison in Kermanshah
An Iranian court sentenced the poet and civil rights activist Kamran Takouk to 28 months in prison on 21 February. Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Kermanshah, western Iran, charged Takouk with "propaganda against the state" and "insulting the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran". The court summoned the activist in the morning of 21 February and informed him of the sentence, a...
Read moreKermanshah: Activist temporarily released on bail
The poet and civil rights activist Kamran Takouk has been temporarily released from Dizelabad Prison of Kermanshah, western Iran, on 17 January after spending five days in detention. The activist has been released on 500 million Iranian Tomans – nearly 20,000 USD – bail. The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had summoned and detained Takouk in Kermanshah on 12 January. He was then...
Read moreIRGC intelligence detains activist in Iran’s Kermanshah
The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) summoned and detained Kamran Takouk, a poet and civil rights activist, in Kermanshah, western Iran, on 12 January. "About two weeks ago, security officers went to Kamran Takouk's house and confiscated his cell phone and some of his personal belongings. They asked him to go to the Nabi Akram Brigade base of the Intelligence Organisation...
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