Kermanshah court sentences eight Kurdish religious activists to a total of twenty years in prison

Hengaw – Friday, October 17, 2025

Eight Kurdish religious activists, including Yasin Azami, Moein Khodadadi, Yasin Shahsavari, Farid Moradi, and Yasin Ramazanizadeh from Javanrud, as well as Hemin Palani, Erfan Moradi, and Peyman Babaei from Sarpol-e Zahab, have been collectively sentenced by the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to a total of twenty years in prison.

According to information obtained by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the First Branch of the Revolutionary Court in Kermanshah (Kermashan) sentenced each of the eight men to two years and six months in prison on charges of “membership in anti-government groups,” amounting to a combined total of twenty years. 

Their sentences were later upheld in full by Branch 14 of the Kermanshah Court of Appeals, presided over by Judge Navid Sahraei, following an appeal by the defendants. The men have now been summoned to the Office for the Enforcement of Sentences to begin serving their prison terms.

The group was originally arrested in 2021 by agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence. After spending two months in detention at the Naft Square Detention Center in Kermanshah (Kermashan), they were temporarily released on bail of one billion tomans each pending trial.