Mahabad; Kurdish civilian transferred to Mahabad prison to serve prison sentence

On Monday, May 19, 2025, Wehab Khediripour, a Kurdish citizen, was arrested following a summons to the correction department of the Criminal Court in Mahabad and transferred to Prison to serve his sentence.

Mr. Khediripour, a resident of Mahabad, was previously sentenced to ten months of imprisonment by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Mahabad on charges of “propaganda against the regime.” The verdict was formally communicated to him in early April 2025.

Following his filing to appeal the verdict, his sentence was reduced to eight months.

On Wednesday, February 21, 2025, Mr. Khediripour was temporarily released from detention after posting a bail of 500 million tomans, pending the conclusion of court proceedings.

After completing his initial interrogation, he had previously been transferred from the detention facility of the Ministry of Intelligence in Mahabad to the city’s central prison.

Mr. Khediripour was initially arrested on Wednesday, January 30, 2025, after being summoned to the office of the Ministry of Intelligence in Mahabad despite not having received an official written summons.

Earlier, on Sunday, January 27, 2025, Iranian security forces had raided his residence in an attempt to arrest him. Due to the commotion caused during the raid, authorities instructed him to appear in front of a judge in Mahabad the following day.

Wehab Khediripour is married and the father of two children. He is the cousin of Shomal Khediripour, one of the individuals killed during the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Women, Life, Freedom) uprising. Additionally, in the spring of 2021, the Islamic Republic of Iran killed his brother, Sohrab Khediripour, a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan.