Arresting 4 Kurdish citizens and issuing 16 years of prison for other four citizens

Four citizens from Piranshahr and Mahabad were sentenced to a total of 16 years in prison, and four Kurdish citizens were also arrested in the cities of Ashnoye and Shahin Dej. Four Kurdish citizens from Piranshahr and Mahabad named Suleiman Salek, Osman Delsoz, Hajar Delsoz and Akam Khizrzadeh were sentenced to a total of 16 years in prison by Piranshahr Criminal Court No./ According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, these 4 citizens have been notified of the issuance of this sentence in the past few days on the charge of "membership in a group or crowd with the intention of disrupting the security of the country"./ According to the verdict issued by Criminal Court 2 of Piranshahr, Suleiman Salek, 71 years old and from Mahabad, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and each of Akam Khizrzadeh, 28 years old from the village of "Kani Badagh", Osman Delsoz, 64 years old, and Hajar Delsoz, 30 years old from the village of "Zyoke" of Piranshahr were sentenced to 2 years of penal servitude./

On the other hand, four Kurdish citizens from the towns of Ashnoye and Shahindej named Luqman Hajikhosh, Salar Beigi, Ali Shiri and Naser Moradi were arrested by the security forces and taken to an unknown place./ No information has been obtained about the accusations made and the whereabouts of these people./ In the past few weeks, agents of the Intelligence Department and the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have arrested or summoned dozens of Kurdish citizens, activists and artists for holding or attending Nowruz ceremonies in various cities of Kurdistan./ Since the beginning of May, at least 33 Kurdish citizens have been arrested by Iranian security forces.