Younes Nabizadeh sentenced to 10 years and one day in prison

Hengaw – Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Younes Nabizadeh, a 37-year-old Kurdish man from Urmia and an active participant in the Woman, Life, Freedom (Jin, Jiyan, Azadi) movement, has been sentenced to 10 years and one day in prison by the Islamic Republic of Iran's judiciary after being forced to make self-incriminating confessions under severe physical and psychological torture.

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Nabizadeh, from the village of Dalou in Urmia's Dizaj Dol district, was convicted by Branch One of the Revolutionary Court of Urmia, presided over by Judge Najafzadeh, on the charge of membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI).

Hengaw has learned that his trial was conducted via video conference and lasted just three minutes.

Security forces arrested Nabizadeh in Urmia on Thursday, June 6, 2024, without a warrant. They subsequently raided and searched his home.

He was then held for approximately two months in solitary confinement at the Urmia Intelligence Department detention center, where he was subjected to severe physical and psychological torture. During that time, security agents forced him to sign statements, make coerced confessions, and accept baseless charges against himself.

Because his brother is a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Nabizadeh had previously been repeatedly summoned, interrogated, threatened, and tortured by the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), particularly during the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.