• <coverage-outsourcing id='31687'> <reference source='https://iranwire.com/fa/news/west-azerbaijan/39766'> Shanaz Sadeghifar left the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), together with her daughter, Aynaz Zare, and returned to Iran. They were both arrested by Baneh border guards upon return to Iran. After inquiry from the IRGC in Urmia, it became clear that they had received safe conduct and were thus released to go to Urmia. When in Urmia, they went to IRGC’s intelligence office. They were told to go home and come back the day after to give explanations. When they did so, they were both arrested and kept for about two months in a detention center run by IRGC’s intelligence department in Urmia. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='31690'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3eZz3am'> She was transferred to Urmia Prison around this time. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='31691'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3eZz3am'> Branch Two of Urumia’s Revolutionary Court, headed by Judge Sheikhloo, sentenced Shahnaz Sadeghifar to 15 years in prison. Various media sources have said that she is accused of collaboration with and membership in Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK); but it’s not clear whether 15 years is an accumulation of different sentences for various charges or a single sentence for a single charge. Given the signs and the judicial process of similar cases, IPA assumes that she is charged with “Baghy (taking up arms against the Islamic government) by membership in Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK)” and her enforceable sentence is 15 years in prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='31869'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/31AHJiO'> She staged a hunger strike to protest the issue of a prison sentence. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='32093'> She ended her hunger strike. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='32094'> <reference source='http://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=13972'> Shahnaz Sadeghifar and Aynaz Zare staged a hunger strike. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, a 15-year sentence for Ms Sadeghifar and the longtime unclear conditions for Ms Zare in prison is what led to the hunger strike. Since there is no report on the hunger strike either continuing or coming to an end, it was probably a short strike. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33487'> <reference source='http://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=14713'> Urmia’s Special Court for Children and Teenagers convicted Aynaz Zare of “assembling and colluding to act against national security by membership in the Kurdistan Freedom Party” and gave her a prison sentence of five-year in prison. She was under 18 at the time of arrest and has so far been denied a lawyer chosen by herself. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='35537'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/325mYMI'> Aynaz Zare was released from prison after having served her sentence. West Azerbaijan’s Appeals Court had previously reduced her sentence to one year. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34902'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3bLMFGo'> West Azerbaijan’s Appeals Court reduced Shanaz Sadeghifar’s sentence to a sentence of five years and one day in prison. Since a sentence of five years and one day is considered Grade Four and the charge of Baghy in Article 288 carries either Grade Three or Grade Five sentences, there is a possibility that either the Baghy charge was in the case in addition to other charges or that there was no Baghy charge at all and Ms Sadeghifar was convicted of other charges. Speaking to sources, IPA was not able to find additional information on the case. IPA’s assumption remains that the main charge in the case was “Baghy by membership in Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK.)” </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='35326'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/31weGwZ'> She was temporarily released on bail from Urmia prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>