Four Kurdish citizens sentenced to a total of four years in prison
Four Kurdish citizens, named "Heiman Mohammadian", "Yadgar Jafari", "Yasin Karimi", and "Pouria Naseri", have been sentenced to a total of four years in prison by the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court.
According to the human rights website Hengaw, on Tuesday, October 20, these four citizens from Sanandaj were each sentenced to one year in prison by Branch 1 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court on the charge of "propaganda against the regime through cooperation with one of the Kurdish parties opposing the Iranian government."
According to this report, these citizens were arrested by the Intelligence Department forces on July 12, coinciding with the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Abdolrahman Qasemlou, the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and were temporarily released after two days after posting bail until the end of the trial.
The human rights website Hengaw stated that the reason for the arrest of these individuals was "wearing Kurdish clothing" on the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Abdolrahman Ghasemlou.
In early July of this year, Mohammad Amin Kanani, a Kurdish activist from the village of Takhta in Sanandaj province, was sentenced to five years in prison by the First Branch of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court on charges of "collaborating with one of the Kurdish opposition parties of the Iranian government."
In a report last month, Amnesty International called 2018 the Islamic Republic's "year of shame" and announced that more than seven thousand people, including participants in demonstrations, students, journalists, women's rights activists, environmental activists, labor activists, and ethnic and religious minority rights activists, have been arrested in Iran this year.
Source: Voice of America
