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Iran sentences Kurdish paramedic to 90 months in prison: Monitor
2023-05-08
[Rudaw] Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has sentenced a Kurdish paramedic to 90 months
...or 7.5 years, for those of us accustomed to thinking longer term...
in prison for his involvement in treating maimed protesters during the Zhina (Mahsa) Amini demonstrations last year, a human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
monitor reported on Sunday.

Hengaw Human Rights Organization revealed that Naser Fagheh-Eissa, a member of Mahabad’s Red Crescent, was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison, after being arrested by Iranian intelligence forces in Mahabad in late October.

The Mahabad criminal court has charged Fagheh-Eissa with treating the maimed protesters, disrupting public order, and the possession of bullets.

The paramedic might see a further increase in his sentence, as he awaits another court session where he is being tried for charges related to another case.

Thousands of maimed protesters were treated at home by medical personnel working in secret and away from the eyes of the security forces, as they could not risk seeking help at hospital where they stood the chance of being arrested for taking part in what the authorities had labeled as "riots".

22-year-old Amini died in police custody last September after being detained for allegedly wearing a lax hijab. Authorities claimed that the cause of death was a heart attack, but human rights activists and witnesses said she had been beaten inside the police van, leading to her death.

Amini’s death sparked nationwide protests initially against the country’s strict dress code for women, before turning into a full-blown revolution calling for the overthrow of the Islamic regime. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its paramilitary Basij led a violent mostly peaceful crackdown against the protesters, killing hundreds of people and wounding thousands others.

The protests around the country eventually simmered down, but Iran’s crackdown was the subject of massive international condemnation.
Related:
Zhina (Mahsa) Amini: 2023-03-14 Iran pardons over 82,000; nearly 23,000 from Amini protests
Zhina (Mahsa) Amini: 2023-03-01 Canada sanctions 12 Iranian officials
Zhina (Mahsa) Amini: 2023-02-24 Iran executes Kurdish, Arab political prisoners
Related:
Mahabad: 2023-01-30 Incoming news that an IRGC base in Mahabad has been hit.
Mahabad: 2022-12-07 Kurdish cities in Iran go on general strike
Mahabad: 2022-11-24 US sanctions three more Iranian officials over roles in protest crackdown
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