Benyamin Rahimpour, former Kurdish political prisoner, sentenced to one year in prison
Hengaw: Sunday, March 30, 2025
Benyamin Rahimpour, a former Kurdish political prisoner from Sanandaj (Sine), has been sentenced by the Iranian judiciary to one year in prison.
According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Benyamin Rahimpour, a 35-year-old resident of Sanandaj originally from the village of "Avihang," married and a father of two, has recently been sentenced by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj to one year in prison on charges of "propaganda against the regime" and "propaganda in favor of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan."
The trial for this person was held on February 10, 2025, at Branch 1 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court, and the verdict was communicated to him on February 14.
On January 22, 2025, Benyamin Rahimpour was violently arrested at his workplace by security forces without being presented with any judicial warrant and was transferred to the IRGC Intelligence Detention Center, known as "Shahramfar Detention Center" in Sanandaj.
He was ultimately released on February 9, after spending 19 days in solitary confinement under IRGC Intelligence custody, on a temporary basis pending the completion of legal proceedings, upon posting a bail of 500 million tomans.
Notably, during his detention, he was deprived of access to a lawyer and denied visitation and communication with his family.
It is worth mentioning that Benyamin Rahimpour had previously been arrested on May 3, 2020, along with his brother, Tareq Rahimpour, when security forces raided their family home. At the time, he had been charged with "collaboration with the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan" and sentenced by Branch 1 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Saeedi, to 18 months of a suspended prison term and six months of an enforceable prison sentence. He was subsequently arrested again on January 28, 2023, after being summoned to Branch 1 of the Sanandaj Enforcement of Judgments Office to serve his six-month prison term and was transferred to the central prison of this city.
