52-Year-Old Kurdish Man Sentenced to Imprisonment by Iranian Judiciary

Hengaw; Friday, September 27, 2024

Mohammad Rasulpour, a 52-year-old Kurdish man from Oshnavieh, who was arrested earlier this summer, has been sentenced to two years in prison by the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Rasulpour was recently sentenced by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Oshnavieh, under the presiding judge, Ali Ansari, to two years of imprisonment. He was convicted on charges of “membership and collaboration with the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan” and “propaganda against the state.” The official verdict has been communicated to him.

Rasulpour was violently arrested in the early hours of Wednesday, July 4, 2024, during a raid by intelligence forces at his home in the village of Kohneh Qaleh in the district of Oshnovieh. The arrest was made without a search warrant.

After approximately two weeks in detention, Rasulpour was temporarily released on Sunday, July 14, 2024, upon posting a bail of 600 million tomans, while awaiting the conclusion of legal proceedings.