Kurdish political prisoner Kamran Ghassemi temporarily ended his hunger strike on 14 March after officials at Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province agreed to consider his demands. Ghassemi began the strike on 5 March in protest at the refusal of prison officials and the Ministry of Intelligence to grant him leave and conditional release. After announcing his hunger strike, Ghassemi was placed in solitary confinement…
Read moreKurdish political prisoner Kamal Sharifi is now in his 16th year of a 30-year sentence in Minab Prison in Hormozgan Province. Despite battling various health problems acquired during his imprisonment, Sharifi has been consistently denied temporary leave and conditional release. Throughout his lengthy imprisonment, Sharifi has only been allowed one family visit. His health has been a major concern, and he has suffered two major health crises…
Read moreKurdish political prisoner Kamran Ghassemi has entered the eighth day of his hunger strike in solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison, West Azerbaijan Province, in protest at the refusal of prison officials and the Ministry of Intelligence to grant him leave and conditional release. Ghassemi was transferred to solitary confinement after announcing his hunger strike on 5 March and has since been denied the right…
Read moreArsalan Khodkam, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment, was temporarily released today after spending nearly six years behind bars in Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Khodkam has been struggling with sight problems in recent months as a result of being denied access to specialist medical services. Prison authorities informed him in October 2023…
Read morePrisoner Mansour Mansouri, previously sentenced to death for murder, was executed in Ilam Central Prison on 11 March. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) had reported the execution of another prisoner, Moein Salavarzizadeh, in Ilam Central Prison on the same day. A source who spoke to KHRN said: “Mansour Mansouri, 44 years old, unmarried and from the city of Sarableh in Ilam Province, was arrested about…
Read moreMoein Salavarzizadeh, a 58-year-old man from the village of Haft Cheshmeh in Abdanan, Ilam Province, was executed today in Ilam Central Prison after spending 32 years behind bars for “premeditated murder”. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Salavarzizadeh was arrested in 1991 for the “premeditated murder” of his brother and subsequently sentenced to death by the Criminal Court One of Ilam Province,…
Read morePrisoners Fakhraddin Mangournezhad and Abbas Dadvar were executed on 7 March in Mahabad Prison, West Azerbaijan Province, on charges of “premeditated murder”. Mangournezhad, from Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan Province, and Dadvar, from Mahabad, were arrested about four years ago for the “premeditated murder” of two brothers in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province.
Read moreKurdish rapper Saman Yasin, who was arrested during the Women Life Freedom uprising in Tehran one and a half years ago, was transferred from Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, to Aminabad Psychiatric Hospital in Rey, Tehran Province, on 5 March, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. This is Yasin’s second transfer to Aminabad in less than a year. Previously, on 22…
Read moreKamran Ghassemi, a Kurdish political prisoner who has served more than half of his seven and a half year sentence in Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, began a hunger strike today in protest at the refusal of the prison authorities and the Ministry of Intelligence to grant his requests for furlough and conditional release. Following the announcement of the hunger strike, he was…
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