A Kurdish Language Teacher in Kamyaran Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison

This week, “Sirwan Ebrahimi,” a civil activist and Kurdish language teacher in Kamyaran who was arrested by security forces last June, was sentenced to 3 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court.

According to the Hengaw Human Rights Network, this Kurdish civil activist and head of the Nozhin Social Cultural Association in Kamyaran was sentenced by the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court to 3 years in prison on charges of “cooperation with one of the Kurdish opposition parties to the Iranian government” and “actions against national security.”

Voice of America is unclear as to which Kurdish opposition party this Kurdish citizen was a member of.

Sirwan Ebrahimi was violently arrested on Wednesday, June 26 (5 Tir) by the Kamyaran Intelligence Agency, and after two and a half months of detention at the Sanandaj Intelligence Agency detention center, he was temporarily released on Thursday, September 12 (21 Shahrivar) after posting a bail of 500 million tomans pending the completion of his trial.

This is not the first time that a Kurdish citizen has received harsh sentences such as lengthy prison terms or execution on charges such as membership or cooperation with one of the Kurdish opposition parties.

Voice of America previously reported that another Kurdish citizen named Kamran Sakhtemanger, a labor activist from Sanandaj, was sentenced to six years in prison by the First Branch of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court, headed by Judge Hossein Saidi, on charges of “cooperation with one of the Kurdish opposition parties to the Iranian government” and “propaganda against the system.”

The U.S. State Department has repeatedly condemned violent crackdowns and widespread suppression of protesters by the ruling regime, as well as the repeated and ongoing violations of the rights of Iranian citizens.

Source: Voice of America