Mahabad; Soroush Yousefzadeh Transferred to Mahabad Prison to Serve Sentence

00:00 - 26 October 2025

On Saturday, October 25, 2025, a Kurdish citizen from Mahabad named "Soroush Yousefzadeh" was arrested and transferred to the prison of this county to serve his imprisonment sentence.

On September 16, 2025, this Kurdish citizen was sentenced to 6 months of executory imprisonment by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Mahabad, presided over by Judge "Siyami," on charges of "propaganda against the state."

On July 13, 2025, after 25 days of detention and interrogation, he was temporarily released upon posting a bail of one billion (Tomans) until the time of his trial.

Previously, Kurpa had published; at 4:00 AM on Thursday, June 19, 2025, "Soroush Yousefzadeh" was arrested by security forces without the presentation of a judicial warrant during a raid on his home and was transferred to an unknown location.

In this arbitrary detention, in addition to confiscating some of Mr. Yousefzadeh’s personal belongings, security forces seized and took away the mobile phones of his father and brother.