Kurdish citizen Gulala Moradi was sentenced to 4 years in prison

Gulala Moradi, a Kurdish citizen from Piranshahr who was released on bail from Urmia Central Prison in the spring of 2022 after a year of detention, was ...

26 December 2022 17:11


Hengaw: Monday, December 26, 2022

Gulala Moradi, a Kurdish citizen from Piranshahr who was released on bail from Urmia Central Prison in the spring of 2022 after a year of detention, was sentenced to prison by the Iranian judiciary.

According to a report received by the Hengaw organization for human rights, Gulala Moradi was recently sentenced to 10 years and one day in prison by the third branch of the 1st Criminal Court based in Mahabad on the charge of "assisting in the murder of Osman Haji Hosseini," a member of the Iranian Intelligence Department.

With the consent of the parents and citing Article 37 Paragraph A and Article 38 Paragraph A of the Islamic Penal Code approved in 2012, the sentence was reduced to four years of imprisonment with two degrees of reduction, including the days of previous detention.

It should be mentioned that during the one year that Gulala Moradi was detained in the central prison of Urmia, she was denied the right to access a lawyer and also the right to leave.

On Sunday, April 24, 2022, Gulaleh Moradi was released from the central prison of Urmia after one year and seven days of detention with a bail of 400 million (10,000 USD) tomans, temporarily ending the proceedings.

Last year, Hengaw Organization published an audio file of Gulala Moradi, in which Gulala said: "They forced me to accept my teenage son's forced confessions against me, as well as the reports that were filed against me, and after threats and intimidation, they forced me to confess to what they wanted, and they filmed me."

On Saturday, April 17, 2021, 48-year-old Gulaleh Moradi was arrested by IRGC intelligence forces along with her two children, 14-year-old Mateen Bezazi and 21-year-old Taher Bezazi, and taken to the detention center of this security institution. Finally, after 45 days of detention in the intelligence detention center of the IRGC in Urmia and the completion of the interrogations, she was transferred to the women's ward of the central prison in Urmia. After some time, his two children were temporarily released on bail.

These three people were arrested after the death of one of the IRGC cadres named Osman Haji Hosseini (Taher Bezazi's father-in-law), which was later claimed by a group known as the Zagros Eagles.


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