Former Kurdish political prisoner Parvin Advaei rearrested by security forces in Marivan

Hengaw: Sunday, January 26, 2025

Parvin Advaei, a women's rights activist and former political prisoner from Marivan, has been arrested once more by the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the city of Marivan.

According to a report received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Monday, January 20, 2025, Parvin Advaei, a civil and women’s rights activist originally from the village of Selin in Sarvabad and residing in Marivan, was arrested, following being summoned to the Intelligence Department of the city.

So far, no specific details have been provided about the reasons for her arrest, the charges against her, or her current whereabouts.

Previously, Parvin Advaei was arrested on Saturday, July 27, 2019, by the Marivan Intelligence Department and was released three months later on a heavy bail of 500 million tomans.

Later, she was sentenced by the Revolutionary Court of Marivan to five years in prison on charges of "membership in the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK)." This sentence was subsequently reduced to two years by the Kurdistan Provincial Court of Appeals.

On Thursday, January 30, 2020, she was arrested again to serve her two-year sentence and transferred to the Sanandaj Juvenile Correctional Center.

On Monday, April 6, 2020, after serving approximately six months of her two-year sentence in Sanandaj Central Prison, Parvin Advaei was released under a Newroz amnesty.