Behzad Rasouli, a 43-year-old citizen from Saqqez, has been sentenced by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran to eight years of discretionary imprisonment.
According to Kolbarnews, recently Behzad Rasouli was sentenced by Branch One of the Revolutionary Court of Saqqez, headed by Judge Javad Ghaffari, to eight years of discretionary imprisonment on charges of “membership in one of the opposition parties,” and he is currently serving his sentence in Saqqez Central Prison.
This sentence was issued while this citizen had previously gone on a long-term hunger strike in protest against the continuation of his temporary detention, security pressures to obtain forced confessions, and deprivation from meeting with his young child, and had remained on hunger strike for 70 days. During this strike, his physical condition had become severely critical, to the extent that after a significant loss of weight he had been transferred to “Khomeini” Hospital in Saqqez, but there too he had refused to receive intravenous fluids.
Behzad Rasouli had been arrested on Saturday, July 26, 2025, during a trip to Isfahan while intending to visit his child, by government forces. After his arrest, he was subjected for weeks to interrogations and psychological pressure in security detention centers in Isfahan and was eventually transferred to Saqqez Central Prison.
