Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Prison guards and security officers raided the political and religious prisoners’ ward in Orumiyeh Central Prison today, destroying prisoners’ belongings and beating Kurdish political prisoners Keyvan Rashozadeh and Kamran Ghassemi. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that that around 10 guards and prison officials took part in the raid, which was ordered by the prison director, Peyman Khanzadeh, citing the presence of mobile...

Kurdish prisoners of conscience Arash Gholizadeh and Ardavan Tahourian, who have separately gone on hunger strike in Orumiyeh Central Prison, in West Azerbaijan Province, are demanding access to medical treatment and the right to temporary leave. Gholizadeh, a Kurdish religious prisoner from Orumiyeh, who is in the third year of a 10-year sentence, began his hunger strike on 15 March, in protest at being denied...

Hassan Omarpour, a Kurdish prisoner serving a 10-year sentence in Orumiyeh Central Prison, began a hunger strike on 14 April to demand a retrial and to protest insults against his family by the prosecutor of Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Omarpour was transferred to solitary confinement on 15 April following the start of his hunger strike and...

The trial of Wrisha Moradi, a member of the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR), scheduled for 9 April at Branch 15 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, has been postponed due to the absence of Judge Amouzad, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The same branch of the court, presided over by Judge Salavati, had previously notified Moradi's lawyers of the...

Sakineh Parvaneh, a Kurdish political prisoner serving a sentence of seven years and six months in Mashhad Prison, was transferred to the women's ward of Evin Prison in Tehran on 3 April for unspecified reasons. She had previously requested to be transferred to Quchan Prison in Razavi Khorasan Province because her family lives in the city. Parvaneh was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic...