said in an Urgent Action<\/a> appeal on December 1.<\/p>\nKarimi, from Iran\u2019s Kurdish minority, is a \u201cprisoner of conscience,\u201d the human rights group said.<\/p>\n
The Urgent Action appeal said: \u201cAlthough he had never received an official written summons, the Office for the Implementation of Sentences had repeatedly telephoned him since February 2016, ordering him to present himself to Tehran\u2019s Evin Prison to begin serving his sentence. The authorities have also told him that they intend to implement his flogging sentence of 223 lashes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cKeywan Karimi had been on bail since December 2013. He had obtained a letter from doctors which certified that his mother was undergoing cancer treatment, including chemotherapy, and Keywan Karimi had hoped that the authorities would not summon him to serve his prison sentence before her course of treatment was complete. He had also wanted to remain at liberty long enough to finish making his latest film.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cKeywan Karimi was arrested on 14 December 2013 and held for 12 days in solitary confinement without access to a lawyer in Section 2-A of Evin Prison, which is under the control of the Revolutionary Guards, before being released on bail. In October 2015, following an unfair trial before a Revolutionary Court in Tehran, he was sentenced to six years\u2019 imprisonment on the charge of \u2018insulting Islamic sanctities\u2019 and 223 lashes on the charge of \u2018illicit relations falling short of adultery\u2019. The former charge was imposed in connection with a music video clip the authorities found on his hard drive; the latter was brought against him for \u2018shaking hands\u2019 and \u2018being under one roof\u2019 with a female friend and poet \u2018who had not covered her head and neck\u2019. On 20 February 2016, Keywan Karimi was told that an appeal court had upheld his flogging sentence and ruled that he must serve one year of his six-year prison sentence,\u201d Amnesty added.<\/p>\n
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