Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Masoud Kurdpour, the editor-in-chief of Mukrian News Agency, was released from the prison of Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, on 14 February under amnesty. The Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Bukan had sentenced Kurdpour to a total of 17 months in prison. "Neither the political prisoner nor his lawyer did not request a pardon and his release was without prior notice", an informed source...

The Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, has sentenced Masoud Kurdpour, the editor-in-chief of Mukrian News Agency, to a total of 17 months in prison. The court charged the Kurdish journalist with "propaganda against the state" and "disrupting public order", Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Security forces arrested Kurdpour at his family home in Bukan on 20 September...