Iranian Kurdish farmer Yousef Kakehmami, already serving nine years in prison after two unfair trials, has been sentenced to a further five years in prison after writing a letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran.
Yousef Kakehmami is a farmer from Iran’s Kurdish minority serving a nine-year sentence in Oroumieh Central Prison, West Azerbaijan Province. The prison’s branch of the Office for the Implementation of Sentences told him on 18 January that he had been sentenced to a further five years in prison, for “acting against national security through collaboration with PJAK” (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan). He had received an unfair trial on 12 January, where he had no legal representation and there was only one hearing, before Branch One of the Revolutionary Court of Mahabad. The court did not provide him with a state-appointed lawyer, though it had said it would do so before the trial began. He has not received the written verdict. Yousef Kakemami had been convicted of the same charge after two unfair trials in 2006 and 2008, in which he received three- and six-year sentences, respectively.
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- Also see this article. "Iran sentences Kurd for writing to UN," K24, March 29, 2016
