Political Prisoners Database

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Kurdish civilian from Maku

Detention date: 1 January 2007

Charged with: Enmity against God through membership in the PJAK

Sentence: 20 years in prison and internal exile to Yazd Central Prison

Current status: Released on parole on 9 March 2022

Rostam Arkia, a Kurdish civilian and father of two from Maku, was detained by Iranian security forces in Tehran on 1 January 2007 and transferred to the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh.

He was subjected to constant pressure and severe torture for nearly three months to make forced confessions.

After the interrogation, Arkia was transferred to Maku Prison.

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