Four Azerbaijani-Turk Activists Sentenced to Prison

Ata Karimi, Gholam Gholizadeh, Sina Hassani, and Ali Azizi, Azerbaijani-Turk activists, have each been sentenced to two years in prison by the Revolutionary Court of Urmia.

Based on a verdict issued by Branch 3 of the Urmia Revolutionary Court and delivered to these activists on Wednesday, July 31st, each of these individuals has been sentenced to two years in prison for the charge of “membership in a group aiming to disrupt national security.”

A source close to one of the families confirmed this news to HRANA, stating: “Previously, this case had been dismissed twice, but following an appeal by Mr. Khodaei, the Deputy Prosecutor, the case was reopened, and after nine years, this verdict was issued.”

In June 2015, these four citizens were arrested by security forces in Urmia in connection with this case and were released after about a week.

Gholam Gholizadeh, Ali Azizi, and Sina Hassani have faced legal actions and convictions in recent years due to their activities.

 

Six of Oroumiyeh civil activists are still under arrest

HRANA News Agency – The reports say that except  6 activists among the arrested civil activists of Oroumiyeh the rest of them were released after a few hours of interrogating in Oroumiyeh intelligence office.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on June 27 Oroumiyeh intelligence agents arrested 36 activists while they were passing the Shahid Kalantari bridge to Sahand mountain slopes and transferred them to Oroumiyeh intelligence office. The intelligence agents interrogated the activists for few hours and after all except of 6 activists, the rest of them were released. Continue reading “Six of Oroumiyeh civil activists are still under arrest”

36 activists were beaten and arrested in Oroumiyeh

HRANA News Agency – The 36 civilian activists 8 of whom were women and were going to hold a ceremony on Sahand mountain slopes were arrested and beaten while they were passing the main bridge on the Oroumiyeh lake.
 
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the security forces have transferred the activists to Shahid Kalantari police station, while insulting and beating them. Some activists are injured and one woman is in an unfavorable condition.
 
The followings are the names of some of these 36 activists: Paria Khalilzadeh -player in national women soccer team, Sevda Khalilzadeh, Ma’soomeh Parivazh, Hossein Zad Ghasem, Zahra Zad Ghasem, Tohid Hassani, Saied Lotfi, Saied Abdi, Somayyeh Alidoost -professor in Oroumiyeh university-, Vahid Faezpour -Weblogger-, Meisam Azadi -Civilian activist-, Gholam Gholizadeh -Civilian activist-, Vahid Nasibi, Morteza Zarrin, Nima Hassani, Sina Hassani, Erfan …, Sima Sakeni and Milad -Saboutai- Koolani.
 
The security forces transferred a number of arrested activists to Oroumiyeh intelligence center and a number of them are still in Shahid Kalantari police station.