Sanandaj: Kurdish civil activist Qane Khateri sentenced to eight months in prison

Hengaw – Sunday, May 25, 2025

Qane Khateri, a 36-year-old Kurdish civil rights activist from Sanandaj (Sine), has been sentenced to eight months of imprisonment by the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Branch 1 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court—presided over by Judge Mostafa Azizi—issued the sentence on charges of “propaganda against the state” through collaboration with the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan.

Khateri was previously released from Sanandaj Central Prison on February 22, 2025, after 15 days in detention, upon posting bail of 500 million tomans pending trial. He had been arrested on February 8, 2025, by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence without an arrest warrant and transferred to the Intelligence Office in Sanandaj.

This is not Khateri’s first arrest. On May 18, 2021, he was detained along with six other activists affiliated with the “Jiyanewe Kurdistan” charity campaign. He was released on June 27, 2021, after 40 days in detention.

In May 2022, Khateri and the six others were sentenced to two years in prison by Branch 1 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court, then presided over by Judge Saeedi, for collaboration with the Komala Party. Khateri’s sentence was later reduced to 18 months on appeal. He was arrested on July 3, 2022, to begin serving that sentence at Sanandaj Central Prison.