Prison sentence for a prisoner in Urmia
24-January-2021
Category: Prisoners
Breathing in Confinement, January 24, 2021: Saeed Sangar, a political prisoner in Urmia, was sentenced to 11 months in prison by the city’s Revolutionary Court. Mr. Sangar, has been held in Urmia Prison for more than 20 years, despite completing his 18-year sentence about two years ago.
According to Mafnews, quoting Kordpa, on Tuesday, January 19, 2021, Revolutionary Court in Urmia sentenced the political prisoner, Saeed Sangar, to 11 months in prison on charges of “propaganda for opposition groups and against the regime.”
In April of this year, while in prison, Mr. Sangar received a sentence of 15 years in prison by Revolutionary Court in Urmia for a new case opened against him. In October 2020 however, his sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court and to be retried, the case was referred to a court of equal rank.
Saeed Sangar is a political prisoner born on May 2, 1973. He was arrested on August 31, 2000, but in his file, the date of arrest is mentioned as October 29, 2000.
On November 18, 2000, on charges of “moharebeh through membership in an opposition organization,” Mr. Sangar was sentenced to death by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, headed by Judge Fatemi.” He then was transferred from the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Center in Sanandaj to the Ministry’s Detention Center in Ward 209 of Evin Prison where he was held in solitary confinement until 2003. In December of the same year, the Appeal Court reduced his sentence to life imprisonment and he eventually was transferred to Urmia Prison.
Finally, on December 23, 2016, his life sentence was reduced to 18 years in prison by Branch 4 of Sentence Implementation Court in Sanandaj.