Five Year Prison Sentence for Teacher

Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan Reporters:

Article 532
December 17, 2006
Sanandaj- Sasan Babai, a Kurdish teacher, had been held in jail for the past four months and is now sentenced to five years in prison for political actions opposing the Islamic Regime. Farzat Kermangar, also a teacher, is a representative of the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan and was taken into custody at the same time as Mr. Babai. Both are being held in Sanandaj Jail.