A Kurdish woman activist sentenced to three years in prison

17:05 - 8 September 2019

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Kurdpa Agency: The Sanandaj Revolutionary Court sentenced a Kurdish woman activist from Marivan to three years in prison.

According to a report by the Kurdistan Press Agency, a few days ago, the trial of ( Iran Rahe Pikar) a Kurdish woman activist from Marivan, was held in the first district of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, presided by Judge Saeedi, and charged with "acting against national security through cooperating with one of Kurdish opposition parties has sentenced to three years in prison.

This activist was arrested on May 14th, 2019 by intelligence forces in Sanandaj and transferred to the Youth detention center after a month of interrogation.

The trial sessions of this Kurdish woman activist has been without a lawyer and was denied to "access to a lawyer".

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