According to information received by the Hana Human Rights Organization, on Thursday, December 4, 2025, Ayoub Javanpour, a civil activist from Saqqez, was summoned to begin serving his exile sentence in Bavi city in Khuzestan Province. He has been ordered to leave Saqqez for this city on Friday, December 5.
Ayoub Javanpour was arrested on Monday, August 4, 2025, by security forces and transferred to Saqqez Prison. He was temporarily released on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, after posting a bail of 200 million tomans.
In previous years, Javanpour had been arrested and tortured multiple times by security agencies. In September 2017, he was arrested for participating in a rally in support of the Kurdistan Region’s independence referendum. He was arrested again on August 25, 2022, during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising and was later released on bail.
A year later, on June 10, 2023, he was arrested for the third time and was transferred to Saqqez Prison after three months of detention by the Intelligence Department.
While in prison, Javanpour went on a hunger strike in protest of the execution of four Kurdish political prisoners in January 2024 and was held in solitary confinement for one week. After one year of imprisonment, he was sentenced to 15 months of exile in Bavi city, Khuzestan Province, and three years of discretionary imprisonment.