Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Four Kurdish civilians imprisoned to serve sentences in Bukan

Kurdish civilians Jalal Amini, Kazem Mam-Esmaeil, Hossein Ahmadi and Younes Mahmoudzadeh were taken to Bukan Prison in West Azerbaijan Province on 12 December to begin serving 30, 12, 26 and 30 month sentences respectively. In January, Branch 101 of the Bukan Criminal Court convicted the four prisoners of "action against national security" through membership of a Kurdish opposition party and "propaganda against the state". The court...

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