Kurdish man, Ahad Mahmoud Hassan arrested to serve prison sentence

Hengaw: Monday, December 23, 2024

Ahad Mahmoud Hassan, also known as Hawtewaneh, a Kurdish resident of Kileh Sipan village in the Piranshahr region, has been arrested and transferred to Naqadeh Central Prison to serve a two-year prison sentence.

According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Mr. Hassan was arrested on Saturday, December 21, 2024, and taken to Naqadeh Central Prison to begin his sentence. The two-year prison term was recently handed down by Branch One of the Mahabad Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Mahmoudi, on charges of “membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan.”

This is not Mr. Hassan’s first conviction. Three years ago, the Criminal Court of Piranshahr sentenced him to six months in prison on similar charges.

Mr. Hassan was initially arrested on May 4, 2020, by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence. He spent 40 days in detention, 30 of which were in solitary confinement without access to legal counsel or family visits. He was later released on bail of 400 million tomans.