Based on this report; In December 2009, Qasim Absteh, along with six Sunni citizens named Anwar Khazri, Ayub Karimi, Dawood Abdullahi, Farhad Salimi, from Saqqz, Kamran Sheikeh and Khosrow Basharat, were arrested by the security forces.
According to received reports; They were sentenced to death by Branch 15 of Tehran Revolution Court in May 2018, on charges of "corruption on earth" and crimes related to national security, following unfair trials during which the court judge denied their lawyer the right to defend them. After being arrested between the middle of December 2009 and the beginning of January 2010, in West Azerbaijan province, these seven people were transferred to the detention center of the Ministry of Information in Urmia and accused of being members of "Salafi groups", a charge that each of them denied.
Despite the numerous cases of serious violations of fair trial rules, on February 2, 2021, the 41st branch of the Supreme Court confirmed the judgments issued against these seven prisoners, and in September 2020, the 38th branch of the Supreme Court rejected their request for retrial.
In July 2018, another court in West Azarbaijan province sentenced Kamran Sheikha to death on the charge of murdering a man who died in a collision with a car, and sentenced Anwar Khezri and Khosrow Basharat to prison as his accomplices.