Kurdish lawyer Khosro Alikordi has been arrested and transferred to Vakilabad prison to start serving a one-year sentence, according to the human rights group Hengaw.
Alikordi was summoned by the Mashhad Revolutionary and Public Prosecution Office on February 17 and subsequently arrested.
The First Branch of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court sentenced the lawyer to one year in prison and two years in exile for defending political prisoners and families of victims of the bloody crackdown on the 2022-23 nationwide protests.
Last month, two United Nations experts denounced the “enormous obstacles and pressures” faced by Iranian lawyers who provided, or attempted to provide, legal support to protesters.
At least 66 lawyers have been arrested and detained since nationwide protests erupted in September 2022, “apparently in an attempt to both intimidate them and to prevent them from representing protestors,” the experts said in a statement.
Eleven of these lawyers have been sentenced and 47 have been released pending trial, they said, adding that many others were targeted with intimidation, harassment and disbarment.
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