Three Takab Citizens Sentenced to a Total of 11 Years and 6 Months in Prison

Three citizens from Takab who were arrested last year have been sentenced to prison by Iran’s judicial system.

The human rights organization Hengaw reported on Friday, June 7, that in recent days, Branch One of the Revolutionary Court of Urmia sentenced three citizens from Takab County to a combined sentence of 11 years and 6 months in prison on charges of “cooperating with one of the Kurdish opposition parties against the Iranian government.”

According to the report, “Behzad Baraderan” was sentenced to eight years, “Saman Sabzi” to three years, and “Shamal Mazroui” to six months in prison.

Last December, Amnesty International in a report called 2018 a “year of shame” for the Islamic Republic and announced that in that year more than seven thousand people, including protest participants, students, journalists, women’s rights activists, environmental activists, labor activists, and ethnic and religious minority rights activists, were arrested in Iran.

Source: Voice of America