Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Kurdish political prisoner, Ghader Mohammad Zadeh who has been in prison for the past 14 years, was exiled to Yazd Prison from the Mahabad Prison on Apr 7, 2019. This political prisoner was previously exiled from the Orumiyeh Central Prison to the Yazd Central Prison on March 19, 2019 , but Yazd prison authorities had refused to admit him.
KHRN has been informed that, following the coordination between the Revolutionary Court of Mahabad and the Yazd Central Prison the prisoner, was finally transferred to the Yazd Central Prison to endure his 20 years of imprisonment with exile .
Mohammad Zadeh was arrested along with Mohammad Amin Abdollahi in 2005 by security forces in Bokan. These two political prisoners were transferred to the Orumiyeh Central Prison after being detained in the solitary confinement cells of the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Mahabad and Orumiyeh cities. Finally, after 12 months of uncertainty about their situation, the two political prisoners went on trial at Branch 1 of Revolutionary Court in Mahabad on the charge of Moharebeh. The Revolutionary Court sentenced Mohammad Zadeh to 18 years of imprisonment while Mohammad Amin Abdollahi was sentenced to 18 years in jail plus exile to Tabas prison. This verdict was later approved by the Orumiyeh Court of Appeal.
Mohammad Zadeh was also sentenced to a further 6 months of imprisonment in February 2010 on another charge of “communication with foreign media” by the Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court following an indictment filed by the Orumiyeh Intelligence Office.
This political prisoner, who has been in prison for more than 14 years, has been deprived of any temporary leave (Furlough) and conditional release.
He had been on hunger strike twice for more than three weeks in March and May 2018 in protest to the transfer to the Labour and “Safe” ward.
