Kurdish political prisoner Faridoun Nabi arrested to serve prison sentence

Hengaw: Friday, January 3, 2025

Faridoun Nabi, a 22-year-old Kurdish man from Sardasht and detainee of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, has been summoned and arrested by the Execution of Sentences Office in Piranshahr. He was transferred to Naghadeh Central Prison to begin serving a 95-month prison sentence.

According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Thursday, January 2, 2025, Faridoun Nabi was arrested and sent to Naghadeh Central Prison to serve his sentence of 7 years and 11 months. 

Faridoun Nabi was first arrested on May 9, 2023, and endured 286 days of interrogation and detention before being temporarily released on bail of 5 billion tomans while awaiting trial. During this period, he spent 65 days in the Urmia Intelligence Detention Center and 7 months and 11 days in Naqadeh Central Prison.

He was sentenced by Branch 2 of the Mahabad Revolutionary Court, under Judge Amir Ojaghloo, to 43 months for “membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan,” 38 months for “collusion and assembly against national security,” and 8 months for “propaganda against the state.” These sentences totaled 89 months, but under the law of sentence aggregation, the maximum enforceable sentence was reduced to 43 months.

In a separate case heard by Branch 102 of the Piranshahr Criminal Court, presided over by Judge Reza Ghahramani Sa’atlou, Faridoun received an additional 6-month sentence for “disrupting public order” and a fine of 2.5 million tomans for “insulting Khamenei.”