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iranwire – An Iranian court has handed down new sentences totaling 13 years and six months to four Kurdish political prisoners, adding to the heavy punishments they are already serving for their involvement in the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests.
Branch 2 of Criminal Court 1 in Ilam Province sentenced Vahid Chavaran and Naser Rezaei to five years each on charges of possessing firearms, the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported.
Mohammad Danyali received two years for allegedly possessing a pistol, while Mohammad Hossein Haseli was sentenced to one year for assault and battery and six months for possessing a hunting rifle.
Authorities transferred Rezaei, Chavaran, and Haseli on May 4 to prisons in Kerman, Zahedan, and Mashhad – hundreds of kilometers from their families – to serve earlier sentences.
The three men had previously been sentenced on January 8, 2024, to 12 years in prison each and internal exile after the Revolutionary Court of Ilam found them guilty of “waging war against God” and “assembly and collusion against national security.”
Police arrested Haseli on July 26, 2023, Chavaran on June 23, 2023, and Rezaei on August 13, 2023.
Rezaei and Chavaran are known locally as civil activists, mountaineers, and paragliding instructors – figures admired in their communities before their arrests. Haseli is a resident of Sarab Bagh in the Abdanan district.
Danyali had earlier been sentenced to two years in prison on charges of “assembly and collusion against national security and committing a social offense.”
Authorities arrested him on March 15 in Dehloran and transferred him to Ilam Central Prison.
