Political Prisoners Database

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From Sarekaniye in the Kurdish region of Syria

Detention date: 28 August 2014

Charged with: Membership in the PKK and enmity against God for killing a member of the IRGC

Sentence: Seven years in prison and the death penalty

Current status: Released from Orumiyeh Central Prison and returned to Damascus on 26 July 2020

Kamal Hassan Ramazan, born on 1 January 1990 and from Sarekaniye (also Ras al-Ain) in the Kurdish region of Syria also known as Rojava, was arrested by security forces in Orumiyeh on 28 August 2014.

After being interrogated for three months in the detention centres of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh, he was transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison.

In August 2015, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison by Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh on charges of membership in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The sentence was later reduced to seven years in prison.

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