A civil activist from Marivan was sentenced to prison and flogging.

Veria Delangiz, a civil activist from Marivan, was sentenced by the criminal court to 4 months in prison and 24 lashes.

According to news published by human rights news agencies, this civil activist from Marivan was sentenced to 4 months in prison and 24 lashes on Saturday, April 13, by Branch 101 of Criminal Court 2 of Marivan City on the charge of "disturbing public order."

According to available information, Veria Delangiz was arrested by security forces in early October 2017 during a celebration held in Marivan to mark the "Iraqi Kurdistan Independence Referendum" and transferred to Sanandaj Central Prison. In mid-November of the same year, she was temporarily released from prison after posting a bail of 40 million Tomans until the end of the trial.

It should be noted that this civil activist was arrested and taken to prison for "inciting people to express joy over the holding of the Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum."

This is not the first time that a court in the Islamic Republic has sentenced a Kurdish citizen to prison terms. Previously, Voice of America reported that the six-year prison sentence of Kamran Sahneghgar, a labor activist from Sanandaj, which was issued in mid-December last year by the First Branch of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court on charges of "collaborating with one of the Kurdish opposition parties of the Iranian government" and "propaganda against the system," was confirmed by the Kurdistan Provincial Court of Appeal and communicated to him.

The US State Department has repeatedly and on various occasions condemned the violent confrontations and widespread repression of protesters, as well as the repeated and persistent violations of the rights of Iranian citizens by the ruling regime in that country.

Source: Voice of America