Kurdish environmental activist Arman Ghafouri was transferred to Marivan Prison on 12 December 2019 to serve his one-year imprisonment sentence. Meanwhile, Kurdish Workers’ activist Jalil Mohammad from Sanandaj and Seyed Reza Ahmadi, a resident of Piranshahr, were released on bail until their trial, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
The forces of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested Arman Ghafouri on 24 July 2017 and interrogated him for three months. He was then transferred to Marivan Prison from the solitary confinement cells of the IRGC security agency in Sanandaj. He was released on a bail on 10 December 2018.
Marivan Revolutionary Court sentenced Ghafouri to six-years in prison in February 2019 on the charge of “membership in one of the Kurdish opposition parties.” The sentence was recently reduced to one-year in prison and then officially served on his lawyer.
The KHRN has also been informed that Jalil Mohammadi, Workers’ activist and a member of the Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers’ Organization, was released on 12 December 2019 on a bail of 10 million Tomans. He had been arrested ten days earlier at his workplace.
Another report indicates that Seyed Reza Ahmadi, a resident of Piranshahr, was released from prison on a bail of 200 million tomans on 9 December 2019.
The Kurdish citizen was arrested by the forces of the Ministry of Intelligence in Piranshahr on 1 August 2018, and he was then taken to the detention centre of the security institution in Orumiyeh. On 19 August 2018, he was finally transferred from the detention centre to Naqadeh Prison until the end of the interrogation process.
