Kurdish Man Arrested by Iranian Authorities to Serve Prison Term in Khorasan Razavi

Hengaw: Sunday, August 11, 2024

Morteza Kaivanlu, a Kurdish man from Joghtai city in Khorasan Razavi province, has been arrested and transferred to Sabzevar Central Prison to serve his imprisonment sentence.

According to a report from the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Thursday, August 8, 2024, 41-year-old Morteza Kaivanlu, a father of two, was arrested after being summoned to the Execution of Sentences branch of the Joghtai court. He was then sent to Sabzevar Central Prison to serve his sentence.

Earlier this year, in May, Morteza Kaivanlu was sentenced to seven months and 15 days in prison by Branch 1 of the Sabzevar Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Mohammad Gholami, on charges of "propaganda activity against the Islamic Republic of Iran." The sentence was later upheld and enforced by Branch 35 of the Khorasan Razavi Court of Appeal.

It is worth noting that Kaivanlu had previously been sentenced to six months of suspended imprisonment and fined in two other cases.

On Sunday, February 18, 2024, Morteza Kaivanlu was arrested by forces of the Intelligence Department in Sabzevar city. He was released on bail at the end of March 2024, pending the conclusion of legal proceedings.