Seyvan Ebrahimi Archives - KHRN

December 4, 2023

Iran sentences Kurdish language teacher, activist to 11 years in prison

Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has sentenced Seyvan Ebrahimi, a Kurdish language teacher and a member of the board of directors of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, to a total of 11 years in prison. Ebrahimi received the verdict on 2 December, according to which he was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of "forming groups and factions...

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August 24, 2023

Sanandaj court sentences Kurdish activist to prison, exile, lashes

Seyvan Ebrahimi, a Kurdish language teacher and a member of the board of directors of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, has been sentenced to one year in prison, 40 lashes and exile to Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah. Branch 106 of the Criminal Court of Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, charged the activist with "disturbing public order". The trial took place on 8 August with the formal sentence issued...

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January 18, 2023

Iran re-arrests Kurdish teacher days after release on bail

Iranian security forces detained Seyvan Ebrahimi, a Kurdish language teacher and a member of the board of directors of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, today and took him to an undisclosed location. He was previously arrested at the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on 3 January, while pursuing the case of his wife, Zahra Mohammadi, who is currently serving a five-year prison...

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January 4, 2023

Iran security forces detain Zahra Mohammadi’s husband in Sanandaj

Today, Iranian security forces arrested Seyvan Ebrahimi, a member of the board of directors of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province. Ebrahimi was arrested when he went to the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj to pursue the case of his imprisoned wife, Zahra Mohammadi. Mohammadi is currently serving a five-year prison sentence in the women's ward of the Juvenile Detention Centre in Sanandaj. She...

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