Masoud Kurdpour sentenced to 17 months in prison
Human rights sources reported on Monday that Masoud Kurdpour, a journalist and managing director of Makrian News Agency, has been sentenced to 17 months in prison.
According to Hengaw Human Rights Organization, which covers news related to Kurdish areas of Iran, this journalist and political prisoner has been convicted by the Bookan Revolutionary Court on charges such as propaganda against the regime and disrupting public order, and has been sentenced to a total of 17 months in prison.
Based on the law of cumulative sentences, 9 months of imprisonment will be enforceable for Mr. Kurdpour.
Mr. Kurdpour was arrested on September 20 during the popular protests in Bookan. He has been previously arrested and imprisoned twice.
This journalist, who is from Bookan, was first arrested in September 2008 and sentenced to one year in prison on charges of propaganda against the regime. After serving the sentence, he was released. He was arrested for the second time in February 2013 and sentenced to three years in prison.
He was also dismissed from his position as the Secretary of Education in Bookan by the Administrative Offenses Investigation Committee in November 2009.
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