Kurdish Protester, Blinded in Security Crackdown, Sentenced to Prison

Hengaw: Monday, February 26, 2024

Hossein Hosseinpour, a Kurdish protester from Mahabad who lost his right eye during the Women, Life, Freedom movement due to direct fire by security agents, has been sentenced to one year in prison by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He is currently in his sixth month of detention at Shiraz No. 2 prison.

According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Hossein Hosseinpour was recently sentenced to one year in prison by the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz for the charge of "propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran."

It is noted that Hossein Hosseinpour's prison sentence has been reduced to 11 months of imprisonment.

Hossein Hosseinpour was transferred to Shiraz Prison No. 2 in January of this year.

On Tuesday, October 17, 2023, he was taken from the security institutions' detention center to Khalili Hospital in Shiraz with handcuffs and later returned to the detention center.

He was denied access to medication, especially his eye drops, in the IRGC intelligence detention center.

Hossein Hosseinpour was arrested on the evening of Wednesday, September 6, 2023, on the Noorabad Mamsani road towards Gachsaran by IRGC intelligence and later transferred to Shiraz Central Prison.

He is among the victims of deliberate firing by the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, resulting in the loss of his right eye during the Women, Life, Freedom movement.