Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Sasan Chamanara, a Kurdish artist and civil rights activist from Ilam, has been sentenced to three months in prison and fined 200 million rials (around 350 USD) by Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Ilam on charges of "propaganda against the state in favour of opposition groups and media". The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Chamanara was summoned to the...

The Ministry of Intelligence arrested Sasan Chamanara, an artist and civil rights activist from Ilam, Ilam Province, at his family home in the city on 17 January and took him to an undisclosed location. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the officers arrested Chamanara without a warrant during a raid on his home and confiscated some of his personal belongings. Chamanara was previously...

Branch 36 of Tehran's Appeals Court recently upheld the five-year prison sentence of Kurdish artist Sasan Chamanara. The artist had previously been sentenced to prison by Branch 29 of Tehran's Islamic Revolutionary Court. On 12 June, he was summoned to serve the sentence by Branch One of the Enforcement of Judgements Office of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Tehran's 33rd district. Chamanara, who is from...