3 years imprisonment for teacher from Saghez in eastern Kurdistan

According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Association Report, “Taher Ghaderzadeh”, a teacher of mathematics at Saghez School in eastern Kurdistan, was sentenced by the appeals court to 3 years suspended imprisonment, while the previously mentioned court was sentenced to three months and one day imprisonment Was convicted.

Taher Ghaderzadeh is a member of the Association of Iranian Teachers’ Association, who had previously been accused of disturbing public opinion and organizing teacher protests and gatherings. In his new decision, he was sentenced to three years in prison by the Revolutionary Court in Branch 5 of the Revolutionary Court of the City of Saghez and does not change.

It should be noted that this Saqez teacher was arrested in March 2015 on charges of disrupting the public order and released on bail.

It is widely believed that the Islamic Republic of Iran does not ignore any protest and deals with its citizens in the most severe manner. And as we see, Iranian prisons contain a large number of civil, political, cultural, lawyers and journalists, and the statistics Indicates the large number of prisoners from the intelligentsia in Iran’s prisons, and the pressure and repression of the Iranian government in the Iranian society in general and the East of Kurdistan are increasing day by day.

Kurdistan Human Rights Association