Iranian authorities punish 58 Kurds with prison terms for wearing Kurdish dress
Hengaw – Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Iranian authorities have sentenced 58 Kurdish people from the cities of Mahabad, Bukan, Piranshahr, and Oshnavieh (Shno) to three months in prison each for wearing traditional Kurdish clothing. Those convicted include relatives of individuals killed during the Woman, Life, Freedom (Jin, Jian, Azadi) movement.
Reports received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights indicate that the Revolutionary Court of Piranshahr issued the sentences as a substitute for fines of 24 million tomans per person.
The convictions were based on photographs showing the group wearing Kurdish dress and Jamaneh during a wedding ceremony. In March 2022, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared the Jamaneh a symbol of Kurdish opposition parties and banned its use during Newroz celebrations.
Among those sentenced are Hassan Farastishad, Mohammad Daroftadeh, and Hassan Daroftadeh, relatives of Amir Farastishad and Komar Daroftadeh, who were killed during the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.
The full list of individuals sentenced by the Iranian judiciary is as follows:
Ebrahim Esmaeili, Zanyar Khezri, Aziz Khezri, Badi Ahmadzadeh, Mohammad Sharif Amini Kanisiran, Mohammad Daroftadeh, Hassan Daroftadeh, Abdollah Sharban, Anwar Tareh, Chiya Ghasemi, Esmail Mohammadi Arshad, Diyar Mahmoudi, Jamal Mahmoudi, Sheikh Mohammad Mamle, Bahman Cheshteh, Ali Daneshi, Diako Mahmoudi, Abdolrahman Sawareh, Mohammad Davari, Ahmad Abdollahzadeh, Hamzeh Zibakalam, Sharif Yousefi, Omid Chawbazem, Mehran Karimi, Rahim Azizi Khalkhaneh, Abubakr Irandoost, Mohammad Rastkar, Seyed Omid Qureshi, Amir Rasoulianpour Deshams, Jafar Azizi, Abdolsalam Amini, Rahim Zahra, Ebrahim Mardani, Omar Yousefi, Seyed Mohammad Salehi, Morad Rasoul Seyed Rasouli, Hassan Farastishad, Tabib Modarresi, Adel Daneshi, Bayezid Khezri, Hassan Rasoulzadeh, Kamal Kakarash, Khalid Ahmadzadeh, Kamyar Khezri, Arman Rahmanipour, Hassan Chamani, Mohammad Rasoulpour, Sediq Karimi, Elias Mohammadi, Mikael Ahmadzadeh, Abubakr Hasaninejad, Omid Mohammadi, Hossein Khedirpour, Rasoul Piroti, Mansour Qaderzadeh, Yousef Mohammadamini Kanisiran, Hassan Esmaeili, and Mobin Pas.
