Kurdish activists are told to refrain from speaking to Kurdistan Press Agency
14:24 - 9 May 2018
Kurdpa Agency: Iran Ministry of Intelligence threatened Kurdish activists with legal repercussion in the case the speak to Kurdpa.
Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence has in the recent years, summoned Kurdish civil and political activists and told them to refrain from speaking to Kurdistan Press Agency (Kurdpa).
Several civil activists in Kurdistan, while confirming the news to Kurdpa said: \"The intelligence forces have citing the Islamic Penal Code threatened to prosecute anyone that speaks to this news agency.”
The intelligence forces consider contact with Kurdpa as \"anti-national security\".
According to activists inside the country, the regime’s intelligence institutions want to cut off the activists’ line of communication with foreign media outlets.
According to lawyers inside the country, conducting interviews with foreign media does not meet the legal requirement under article 610 of the Islamic Penal Code which speaks to cooperation and conspiring against the state’s national interest. Article 610 states that “When two or more people gather and collude to commit or facilitate an act against the internal or external security of the state, they shall be sentenced to two to five years in prison.” Based on the content of this Article speaking to foreign media outlets does not constitute as crimes against the state’s security since people do not gather in a physical place, and yet, the regime treats speaking to foreign media as conspiring against the state.
The move to prosecute activists for speaking to foreign media as lacking legal and rational explanation.
The Kurdpa News Agency, an independent human right watch was founded in August 2011. Kurdpa reports on the human rights abuses in Kurdistan and Iran in a professional manner.
Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence has in the recent years, summoned Kurdish civil and political activists and told them to refrain from speaking to Kurdistan Press Agency (Kurdpa).
Several civil activists in Kurdistan, while confirming the news to Kurdpa said: \"The intelligence forces have citing the Islamic Penal Code threatened to prosecute anyone that speaks to this news agency.”
The intelligence forces consider contact with Kurdpa as \"anti-national security\".
According to activists inside the country, the regime’s intelligence institutions want to cut off the activists’ line of communication with foreign media outlets.
According to lawyers inside the country, conducting interviews with foreign media does not meet the legal requirement under article 610 of the Islamic Penal Code which speaks to cooperation and conspiring against the state’s national interest. Article 610 states that “When two or more people gather and collude to commit or facilitate an act against the internal or external security of the state, they shall be sentenced to two to five years in prison.” Based on the content of this Article speaking to foreign media outlets does not constitute as crimes against the state’s security since people do not gather in a physical place, and yet, the regime treats speaking to foreign media as conspiring against the state.
The move to prosecute activists for speaking to foreign media as lacking legal and rational explanation.
The Kurdpa News Agency, an independent human right watch was founded in August 2011. Kurdpa reports on the human rights abuses in Kurdistan and Iran in a professional manner.
