Pakshan Azizi, a Kurdish political prisoner on death row, and Warisha Moradi, a member of the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR) who faces charges of “armed insurrection” (baghi), have been sentenced to an additional six months’ imprisonment for “disturbing the prison order” in Evin Prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported on Monday.

Accordingly, the two political prisoners, who refused to attend the court session, were sentenced by the Second Criminal Court of the Qods Judicial Complex in Tehran.

The case arose following protests by political prisoners in the women’s ward of Evin Prison and clashes with prison guards in response to the execution of Reza Rasai, a Kurdish Yarsani political prisoner.

Moradi has been on an indefinite hunger strike since 10 October, the World Day against the Death Penalty. 

Two court sessions have been held in her case at Branch 15 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, presided over by Judge Salavati.

Azizi, a social worker from Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, was sentenced to death and an additional four years in prison on 23 July on charges of “armed insurrection” (baghi) and “membership of opposition groups”, after spending a year in detention.