Ahmad Hasanzadeh, father of slain protester, arrested to serve prison sentence

Hengaw: Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Ahmad Hasanzadeh, a Kurdish man from Bukan and the father of Mohammad Hasanzadeh, who was killed during the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement, has been arrested to serve a three-month prison sentence. 

According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, Ahmad Hasanzadeh, 57, the justice-seeking father of Mohammad Hasanzadeh, was arrested and transferred to Bukan Central Prison to begin serving his sentence.

Last fall, Judge Mehdi Fakhri of Branch 101 of the Bukan Criminal Court sentenced Hasanzadeh to three months in prison on charges of “propaganda against the regime.” The charge was based on his public activism, including encouraging shopkeepers and merchants to participate in strikes commemorating the second anniversary of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.

Hengaw previously reported that during his trial, Hasanzadeh was denied the opportunity to present a defense. Additionally, another case against him remains open.

Over the past two years, Iranian security forces have repeatedly summoned or arrested Hasanzadeh. His most recent arrest occurred on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, when security forces raided his family home and detained him along with his daughter, Solmaz Hasanzadeh—on what would have been his slain son’s birthday.

He and his daughter were also arrested on September 5, 2023, by security forces.

Mohammad Hasanzadeh was killed on the night of Wednesday, November 16, 2022, during public protests in Bukan. He was fatally stabbed multiple times and shot in the chest by government forces while attempting to rescue a girl who had been abducted by security forces.