A Kurdish language teacher in Kamyaran was sentenced to 3 years in prison.

This week, Sirvan Ebrahimi, a civil activist and Kurdish language teacher in Kamyaran who was arrested by security forces last July, 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 and Cultural Association in the city of Kamyaran was sentenced to 3 years in prison by the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court on charges of "collaborating with one of the Kurdish opposition parties of the Iranian government" and "acting against national security." It has been.

It is not clear to VOA which Kurdish party opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran this Kurdish citizen was a member of.

Sirvan Ebrahimi was violently arrested by Kamyaran Intelligence Agency forces on Wednesday, July 25, and after two and a half months of detention in the Sanandaj Intelligence Agency detention center, he was temporarily released from prison on Thursday, September 11, after posting a bail of 500 million Tomans until the end of the trial.

This is not the first time that a Kurdish citizen has been given severe sentences, such as long prison terms or the death penalty, for charges such as membership in or collaboration with a Kurdish opposition party.

Voice of America had previously reported that another Kurdish citizen, Kamran Sahneghgar, a labor activist from Sanandaj, had been sentenced to six years in prison by the First Branch of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court, headed by Judge Hossein Saeedi, on charges of "collaborating with a Kurdish opposition party in Iran" and "propaganda against the regime."

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