According to information received by HANA Human Rights Organization, Mohammad Amin Eskandari, a 24-year-old Kurdish citizen from Ashkhaneh in North Khorasan Province, has been sentenced by Branch Two of the Bojnurd Revolutionary Court to two years in ta’zir imprisonment on charges of “propaganda against the state” and “assembly and collusion against internal and external security.”
He was arrested in late January 2026, after security forces raided his family’s home several times, without presenting a judicial warrant. According to sources close to HANA, he was denied access to a lawyer and contact or visits with his family throughout his detention, and was subjected to physical torture.
The verdict was communicated to him verbally in early August 2026. Eskandari was denied the right to choose his own lawyer at every stage of the proceedings, and no court-appointed lawyer was assigned to him either. He has also been warned that appealing the ruling could result in a harsher sentence.
Arrest without a judicial warrant, allegations of torture, denial of legal counsel, and pressure to forgo an appeal amount to a clear violation of the prohibition on torture, the right to a fair trial, and the right to an effective judicial remedy.