Five Citizens Sentenced to a Total of 13 Years in Prison in Oshnavieh

The Revolutionary Court of Oshnavieh sentenced Rahman Aasadi, Farhad Maroufi, Obeid Anvari, Ribwar Charakdari, and Jalal Ghaderzadeh to a total of 13 years in prison.

According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, quoting Kurdpa, five residents of Oshnavieh County were sentenced by the Revolutionary Court.

According to this verdict, issued on Saturday, March 26, Rahman Asadi was sentenced to 4 years, Farhad Maroufi and Jalal Ghaderzadeh each to 3 years, Obeid Anvari to 2 years, Ribwar Charakdari to 1 year in prison. These individuals have been charged with “membership and collaboration with a political opposition party.”

On August 2, 2021, security forces arrested the above-mentioned and they were subsequently released on bail over the next two months.

Ribwar Charakdari is a resident of Oshnavieh city and the rest are the residents of the village Aliabad in Oshnavieh County.

Six Citizens Summoned and Arrested in Oshnavieh in West Azerbaijan Province

On Monday, August 2, two citizens were arrested by security forces and taken to an unknown location in Oshnavieh.

According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, quoting the Center of Democracy and Human Rights in Kurdistan, the identities of these citizens are Obaid Anvari, son of Rahim, from the village of Amirabad, and 22-year-old Ribvar Charakdari, son of Mohammad.

According to the report, another citizen named Hassan Shadikhah, a native of Sengan village in Oshnavieh, was summoned by the Oshnavieh Intelligence Office and interrogated for several hours.

The Kurdpa report states that three other citizens were arrested in the county of Oshnavieh besides the above mentioned ones. Kurdpa has identified the detainees as Farhad Maroufi, son of Hassan, from Aliabad village, Rahman Asadi, son of Mahmoud, from Aliabad village, and Jalal Ghaderzadeh, son of Abdollah, from Nalous. As of this writing, no information is available on the whereabouts of the detainees and the charges against them.