A Kurdish social activist sentenced to one year in discretionary imprisonment and two years in no_flies list

11:43 - 14 September 2019

 Kurdpa Agency: A Kurdish social activist from Paveh was sentenced to one year in discretionary imprisonment by the Revolutionary Court and two years' banned from leaving the country.

 According to a report by the Kurdistan Press Agency, Erfan Rashidi, a social activist from Paveh, was sentenced to one year in discretionary imprisonment by the Paveh Revolutionary Court on charges of "propaganda against the system", and put on the no-fly list for two year. 

 On Wednesday, July 4th, 2018, security forces raided the personal home of this member of the Paveh Zhiva Environmental and arrested him.

 Intelligence forces accused this Kurdish activist of "cooperating with one of the Kurdish opposition parties of the Iranian government" and transferred him to Kermanshah Intelligence Office's detention center after being detained and after 9 days interrogation, on Thursday, July 12, 2018 he was temporarily released on bail.