The Kurdish political prisoner, Mohammad Amin Abdollahi was granted conditional freedom from Birjad Prison after serving 13 years and 6 months in prison.
Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Mohammad Amin Abdollahi, who was serving his 18-year sentence in prison, was conditionally released from Birjand Central Prison upon the consent of the Mahabad and Birjand prosecutors.
Mohammad Amin Abdollahi was arrested in Bukan in 2005 at the age of 17. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison and exiled to Tabas prison on charges of Muharebeh (waging war against God) by Mahabad Revolutionary Court after 15 months of detention in Mahabad and Orumiyeh Intelligence Detention Centres.
He was sentenced to 6 months of i\mprisonment in February 2010 on the new charge of “communication with foreign media” by the Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court.Mohammad Amin Abdollahi was exiled to Tabas prison in 2013. He went on hunger strike in October 2015 in protest to the refusal of authorities to grant him a furlough, conditional release and transfer him to a prison closer to his hometown. On the second day of his hunger strike, October 6, prison authorities exiled him from Tabas Prison to the quarantine of the Birjand Central Prison.
The political prisoner continued his hunger strike for 40 days. The hunger strike ended with the authorities’ favourable promises. He was also sentenced to 74 lashes by Branch 104 of the Birjand General Court on August 25 of this year due to his delay in returning to prison after his temporary leave period.
Mohammad Abdullahi, the brother of this political prisoner, was executed on August 19, 2015, in the Orumiyeh Central Prison on charges of moharebeh.
