According to reports received by the Hana Human Rights Organization, on Monday, March 10, 2025, Kamran Sakhtmangar, a labor activist and former political prisoner from Sanandaj, was temporarily released on bail from the city’s prison.
Kamran Sakhtmangar was violently arrested by security forces on Wednesday morning, February 5, 2025, on Jami Street in Sanandaj, without the presentation of a judicial warrant.
Previously, he had been sentenced by Branch 1 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court to three months of discretionary imprisonment and a fine on charges of “propaganda against the regime through social media and interviews with television networks.” Based on legal provisions in his previous case, his three-month prison sentence was converted into a fine, amounting to a total of 34 million tomans.
His trial was held on Monday, September 18, 2023, in Branch 1 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court without legal representation.
It is worth noting that Sakhtmangar had been previously arrested at his home in Sanandaj on September 29, 2022, during the nationwide protests and was later released on March 8, 2023.
Additionally, in 2019, he was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of “membership in a Kurdish opposition party” and one year for “propaganda against the regime.”