Appeals court upholds prison term for protest detainee Ahmad Lajam Owrak

Hengaw – Friday, June 12, 2026

The Khuzestan Province Court of Appeals has upheld a prison term of two years and one day for Ahmad Lajam Owrak, a Lor Bakhtiari man arrested during the January protests in Izeh.

According to information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the appeals court affirmed the lower court's verdict in full. Owrak had previously been sentenced by the Izeh Revolutionary Court to two years and one day in prison on charges of “disrupting public order and peace.”

Security forces arrested Ahmad Lajam Owrak on January 8, 2026, during a wave of arrests linked to the January protests in Izeh.

After nearly 40 days in detention and interrogation, he was released on bail on February 14, 2026, pending the completion of judicial proceedings. The bail was set at 1.5 billion tomans.