Adel Pirouzi, former Kurdish political Prisoner, sentenced to prison

Hengaw; Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Adel Pirouzi, a former political prisoner from Marivan, has been sentenced to one year of imprisonment by the Islamic Republic of Iran judiciary. He had spent nearly two months in prison last year.

According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, 29-year-old Adel Pirouzi, a resident of Sardoush village, Marivan, was sentenced to one year in prison by the Revolutionary Court of Marivan on charges of "collaborating with the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan."

Hengaw previously reported that during his former imprisonment, Adel Pirouzi was denied visitation, phone calls, and access to a lawyer.

His prolonged detention occurred while his father is disabled, and his mother had mobility impairment.

He was arrested on Monday, November 20, 2023, after being summoned to the Intelligence Ministry Department in Marivan and was temporarily released from Marivan's central prison on January 14, 2024, after posting bail.

Adel Pirouzi had also been arrested by security forces in the fall of 2018. Later, he was sentenced to two years of imprisonment by the Revolutionary Court of Marivan on charges of collaborating with the Democratic Party.

In the fall of 2019, this individual was arrested to serve his sentence, and after serving six months of his two-year sentence, he was conditionally released from Marivan Central Prison on March 25, 2020.