Saivan Ebrahimi, a Kurdish language teacher and member of the board of the cultural-social association “Nojin,” has been arrested and transferred to Sanandaj Prison to serve his prison sentence.
According to Kolbarnews, on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, Saivan Ebrahimi was arrested and transferred to Sanandaj Prison after being summoned to serve his eight-month prison sentence.
On June 24, 2024, he was released from Sanandaj Prison after serving five months and twenty-five days of another part of his sentence. He had previously been arrested and transferred to Sanandaj Prison on December 30, 2022.
In December 2022, the First Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj, presided over by Judge Mohammad Karami, sentenced Saivan Ebrahimi to ten years in prison for “forming groups and gangs with the intent to disrupt national security” and one year in prison for “propaganda against the regime,” totaling eleven years of imprisonment. Ultimately, he was acquitted of the charge of “forming groups and gangs with the intent to disrupt national security” in the appeals court, and his one-year prison sentence was reduced to eight months.
On November 3, 2022, a court session was held to address the charges against Ebrahimi. Regarding another part of his case, he was sentenced in September 2022 by the Criminal Court of Sanandaj to one year of imprisonment in exile and forty lashes. Shortly after, the Kurdistan Provincial Appeals Court upheld the sentence of imprisonment and lashes but revoked his exile to Dieselabad Prison in Kermanshah.
Saivan Ebrahimi, a Kurdish language teacher and member of the Nojin Cultural Association, was one of the detainees of the nationwide protests in 2022. He was arrested for the second time by security forces in Kamiyaran on January 18, 2022, and was finally released on bail in February of the same year.
