Hamid Chapati, a Kurdish civil activist from Urmia, has been sentenced to six months of discretionary imprisonment by Branch 23 of the Appeals Court of West Azerbaijan Province. The ruling was officially communicated to him on August 18,…
Pouria Nasiri, an undergraduate law student at Islamic Azad University of Mahabad, has been sentenced by the Revolutionary Court of Mahabad to three months of suspended imprisonment for a duration of two years.
For the second time, the Supreme Court of Iran has rejected a retrial request for Mashallah Karami, the father of Mohammad Mehdi (Kumar) Karami, a protester executed during the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi revolutionary uprising.
August 21, 2025 – Three days have passed since the arbitrary arrest of four Kurdish citizens from Saqqez by agents of the Intelligence Department, yet no information is available regarding their place of detention or current condition.
On Tuesday, August 19, 2025, Nariman Randani, a civil activist from Saqqez, was arrested for the third time by security forces and taken to an undisclosed location.
On Wednesday, August 20, 2025, Amin Karimi, also known as "Aminu", a theater artist and actor from Urmia, was released from the city’s central prison on bail after 51 days of pre-trial detention.
On Monday, August 18, 2025, a court session was held for Mousa Omidi, a political activist and head of the United Kurdish Front in Ilam Province, at Branch 1 of the Ilam Revolutionary Court to address the charges brought against him.
On Monday, August 18, 2025, a Kurdish citizen from Piranshahr named Zobeyr Mahmoudi was temporarily released from Naqadeh prison on bail after 39 days of pre-trial detention.
At dawn on Sunday, August 17, 2025, a Kurdish kolbar named Rahman Rasoulzadeh, from Baneh, was killed by government soldiers’ gunfire in the border areas of this city.
On Saturday, August 16, 2025, the sentence of Abdollah Sharifzadeh, a member of the Halo Mountaineering Group in Saqqez, which had been converted to restricted movement under electronic ankle monitoring, came to an end.
Kurdistan Press Agency
