The Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, has sentenced seven Kurdish civilians and activists from Saqqez in a joint case. The individuals, including Safa Aeli, the uncle of Jina Amini, Hiva Jahani, Sherko (Khaled) Hejazi, Hiva Tataei, Mohammad Azad Amini, Samira Ahmadi, and Omid Moghaddas, were charged with offenses such as “assembly and collusion against domestic/external security”, “propaganda against the…
Read moreMohammad Khezrnezhad, a 45-year-old Sunni Kurdish cleric, has been sentenced to death and 16 years in prison by Branch Three of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. The charges against him include “spreading corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel arz), “harming the territorial integrity or independence of the country”, and “propaganda against the state”. A source familiar with the case told the Kurdistan Human…
Read moreKurdish political prisoners Pezhman Fatehi, Mohsen Mazloum, Mohammad Faramarzi, and Vafa Azarbar, who have been sentenced to death, have had their request for a retrial rejected by the Supreme Court, according to their lawyer, Masoud Shamsnejad. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on 16 January, Shamsnejad said: “The request for a retrial on behalf of my clients Vafa Azarbar, Mohammad Faramarzi, Mohsen…
Read moreA Turkish court in Hakkari, in south-east Turkey, has sentenced Kurdish environmental activist and former political prisoner Mahyar Ahmadi, from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, to six years and three months in prison. The court charged Ahmadi with “membership of one of the Kurdish opposition parties”, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Ahmadi was arrested on 12 September by Turkish border guards at the border between…
Read moreThe Special Clerical Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, has sentenced Sunni Kurdish cleric Ebrahim Salimi to three years in prison on charges of “acting against national security” and “disturbing public opinion”. Salimi, the Imam of the Chahar Yar-e Nabi mosque in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, was summoned by the Ministry of Intelligence in Piranshahr on 31 January and arrested for signing a statement in…
Read moreKurdish labour activist Foad (Sirous) Fathi has been sentenced to a total of four years in prison and supplementary penalties following his arrest by security forces in Tehran and transfer to Evin Prison on 4 November. The activist was tried on 2 December in Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, presided over by Judge Afshar, and he was informed of the verdict…
Read moreThe Special Clerical Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, has sentenced Sunni Kurdish clerics Seyyed Soleyman Ahmadi, Younes Nowkhah, Seyyed Jamaladdin Vazhi and Sharif Mahmoudpour to a total of 11 years in prison. Ahmadi and Nowkhah, teachers at the Salahuddin Ayubi School of Religious Studies in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, were sentenced to four and three years in prison respectively, while Vazhi, a religious teacher,…
Read moreBranch 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…
Read moreSadegh Mahmoudnezhad, a protester who suffered an eye injury during the anti-government uprising of Women Life Freedom, has been sentenced to five years and six months in prison by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province. The charges against him include “acting against national security” through his alleged “membership” of a Kurdish opposition party and engaging in “propaganda against the state”. This sentence follows…
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