Oshnavieh; Five Kurdish citizens arrested and taken to prison to serve their prison sentences
Bahman Mahmoudi-Azer, Yaqub Mahmoudi-Azer, Yusuf Rahmani, Pirot Tabnak, and M
Hengaw: Sunday, December 31, 2023
Bahman Mahmoudi-Azer, Yaqub Mahmoudi-Azer, Yusuf Rahmani, Pirot Tabnak, and Mohsen Azizi, Kurdish citizens from Oshnavieh, were arrested and transferred to the central prison of this city to serve their prison sentence.
According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Saturday, December 30, 2023, Bahman Mahmoudi-Azer and Yaqub Mahmoudi-Azer, each to serve their 7-year prison sentence, Mohsen Azizi and Pirot Tabnak, each to serve their two-year prison sentence and Youssef Rahmani, to serve two years and five months in prison, were arrested after being summoned to the execution branch of the Oshnavieh’s court, and then transferred to the prison of this city.
In December 2023, Bahman Mahmoudi-Azer, from Oshnavieh, and Yaqub Mahmoodi-Azer, from the village of "Singan" in this city, were each sentenced to seven years of imprisonment by the Iranian IslamicRevolutionary Court of this city, presided over by Judge Mehdi Rezaei. Also, Pirot Tabnak, from the village of Singan, and Mohsen Azizi, from Oshanvieh, were each sentenced to two years in prison, and Yusuf Rahmani, from the village of "Khorsht", was sentenced to two years and five months in prison.
Hengaw wrote earlier, quoting informed sources that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court in Oshnavieh has sentenced these citizens to prison for charges including "membership in the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran" and "collaboration with the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran".
On the morning of Wednesday, July 13, 2023, Yousef Rahmani and Mohsen Azizi were arrested in their homes by the Iranian security forces. Yousuf Rahmani was temporarily released on bail on August 17, 2022, and Mohsen Azizi was later released on the same terms on Sunday, July 24, 2023.
Yaqub Mahmoudi-Azer and Bahman Mahmoudi-Azer were both arrested by the Iranian security forces on June 27, 2023 and were temporarily released from Oshnavieh prison on August 18 and 4, 2023, respectively, by posting bail until the end of the proceedings.
