Mr. Karimi had previously been sentenced to three months in prison by the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court on charges of "propaganda against the system," and the sentence was converted to a fine of 8 million tomans.

This labor activist was arrested by security forces on June 1, 2022, and after a week of detention in solitary confinement at the Sanandaj Intelligence Agency, he was released on bail from the city’s prison on Wednesday, June 8, 2022.