Arslan Sohrabi, Kurdish Political Prisoner, Re-Arrested One Month After Release
Hengaw: Friday, September 6, 2024
Arslan Sohrabi (Khodkam), a Kurdish political prisoner from Mahabad, who was released from Urmia Central Prison in July 2024 after serving six years and two months, has recently been arrested again following a summons to the Iranian Intelligence forces in Urmia and transferred back to Urmia Central Prison.
According to the report received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Sunday, August 18, 2024, 50-year-old Arslan Sohrabi (Khodkam), a former Kurdish political prisoner from Mahabad, was arrested after being summoned to the Iranian Intelligence forces in Urmia and transferred to the political ward of Urmia Central Prison.
Arslan Sohrabi’s re-arrest comes after his life sentence was unexpectedly suspended by the Iranian Military Prosecutor’s Office in Tehran, without prior notice. The 50-year-old political prisoner had been released from Urmia Central Prison on Friday, July 5, 2024, as announced by prison officials.
It is worth mentioning that Arslan Sohrabi was sent on short-term leave on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, after serving five years and ten months and 19 days, in prison.
In August 2018, Arslan Sohrabi was sentenced to death by Branch 32 of the Iranian Military Court in Urmia on charges of espionage for the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan.
This sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment by invoking Article 20 of the Amnesty and Clemency Commission, and the revised sentence was officially communicated to him on Wednesday, April 14, 2021.
On Monday, April 23, 2018, while serving as a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and on a mission in Oshnavieh, Sohrabi was arrested on charges of collaboration with the Democratic Party.
