Saturday 21 May 2011

Court Verdicts Issued for Twelve Azeri Activists

Tabriz Revolutionary Court issued the following verdicts for 11 activists after acquitting one person. Younes Soleimani, Mahmoud Fazli, Naeim Ahmadi, Aidin Khajei, Shahram Radmehr, Yashar Karimi, and Hamideh Farajzadeh have each been sentenced to 6 months in prison. Alireza Abdollahi, Behboud Gholizadeh and Akbar Azad have also been sentenced to 6 months of suspended imprisonment for 5 years.

According to the Human Rights House of Iran, Hassan Rahimi has been acquitted after 4 months of solitary confinement.

The aforementioned individuals were tried for membership in a party by the name of “Gamouh” and acting against national security. They spent 8 months in prison, 5 months of which was in solitary confinement. Yourosh Mehrali Biglou, Latif Hosseini and Zahra Farajzadeh, several other Azeri political activists, will be tried in the upcoming days.

Human Rights House of IRAN




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