Kurdish Political Prisoner Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison
The eleven-year prison sentence of a citizen residing in Marivan county named “Tahsin Dadres” has been reduced to 6 years by the Court of Appeals.
According to the Democracy and Human Rights Center of Kurdistan, the eleven-year prison sentence of this Kurdish political activist, which was previously issued by the Marivan Revolutionary Court on charges of “cooperation with one of the Kurdish parties opposed to the system,” was reduced to 6 years on Tuesday, February 28, following a ruling by the Kurdistan Province Court of Appeals.
It is unclear to Voice of America which Kurdish party opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran this political activist cooperated with.
Based on released information, Tahsin Dadres was arrested by security forces on Saturday, December 30, 2017, and was subsequently released on bail of 500 million tomans on August 29, 2018, temporarily and until the end of his trial.
According to the Democracy and Human Rights Center of Kurdistan, this Kurdish citizen was arrested again just two months after his release and has been detained in Marivan Prison since that time.
This is not the first time that a Kurdish citizen has been sentenced to severe punishments such as lengthy prison sentences or execution on charges such as membership or cooperation with one of the Kurdish opposition parties.
Voice of America previously reported that Branch Two of the Urmia Islamic Revolutionary Court for the second time sentenced a Kurdish political prisoner named Mohiuddin Ebrahimi to death on charges of “rebellion” through membership in one of the Kurdish opposition parties.
The U.S. State Department has repeatedly condemned violent and widespread suppression of protesters in various cases and the repeated and continuous violation of the rights of Iranian citizens, including ethnic and religious minorities, by the ruling regime of that country.
Source: Voice of America
