Three union activists sentenced to 6 years in prison by Iranian courts

Hengaw; Sunday June 23, 2024

Labor activists Morteza Seydi, Mohammad Iran-Nejad and Nasrollah Amirloo were sentenced to a total of six years in prison by the justice system of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Morteza Seydi, a Kurdish trade union activist from Kamyaran, Mohammad Iran-Nejad and Nasrollah Amirloo were recently sentenced by the Second Branch of the Shahriar Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Bahram Panahi, to two years' imprisonment each for “forming a group with the intention of disrupting security”. In total, they were sentenced to six years in prison.

The hearing for these union activists was held on April 25, 2023 and their prison sentences were officially announced on Saturday June 22, 2024.

Morteza Seydi and Nasrollah Amirloo were arrested by security forces in Shahriar, Tehran province, along with several other union activists, on Friday, April 15, 2022.

These two union activists were temporarily released from Evin Prison in May 2022 on bail until the end of the legal proceedings.

Mohammad Iran-Nejad was sent to Evin Prison on June 26, 2022 to serve his sentence for a previous case. He was finally released from Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj on February 20, 2023.