According to a report by the Hana Human Rights Organization, on Saturday, October 25, 2025, Soroush Yousefzadeh, a resident of Mahabad County, was arrested to serve his six-month prison sentence and subsequently transferred to Mahabad Prison.
Soroush Yousefzadeh had been sentenced to six months Ta’zir imprisonment by Branch 1 of the Mahabad Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Siyami, on charges of “propaganda against the regime.” The verdict had been officially communicated to him on September 16, 2025.
It is worth noting that this Kurdish citizen was previously arrested on June 19, 2025 by security forces without a judicial warrant at his home and was later released temporarily on July 13, 2025 after posting a bail of one billion tomans pending trial.