Iran regime increases crackdown on Kurdish student activists

A Kurdist student activist has been sent to Mariwan Central Prison. He has been accused by a court in Sanandaj, western Iran of “propaganda against the state” and “illegal crossing of borders”, and sentenced to 18 months in prison.

In another case, another Kurdish student in Sanandaj’s Payam Nour University, western Iran, was summoned on June 17 to the Sanandaj Intelligence Department and has been held in detention at this location ever since. His family’s follow-ups have remained unanswered and the reason of his arrest has not been announced by the authorities.