According to information obtained by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), back in June 2016, several citizens of this village were arrested following clashes between peshmerga fighters of the of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) and Iranian government’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
The Court Session for those six men was held on 17 January 2017.
The Judge issued the sentences as follows :
– Hedayat Abdullahpour : sentenced to death
– Rassoul Azizi : sentenced to 25 years in jail
– Mohamad Zaher Faramarzi : 20 years in jail
– Marsoei brothers : 15 years for Jalal and 10 years and one day for Kamal, respectively.
– Yaghoub Bakram : 15 years and one day
Those sentences were confirmed to the aid lawyer a few days ago.
A source told the KHRN that “the only fault of those men was that they had took food to the PDKI peshmerga fighters. It was considered by the Court as a sufficient evidence that they are members of the PDKI and acted against the state. It was enough to sentence them to death and long jail sentences”.
The source said: “The lawyer was very confident and declared to their families that they will be acquitted of the ‘Moharebeh’ charges because there is no evidence against them. But all of them were still charged with ‘Moharebeh’. Hedayat Abdullahpour, the death row inmate, wasn’t even there when the clashes occurred. He came back a few days after the clashes and it has been clearly videotaped by the surveillance cameras of the city. By the way, he was arrested some 50 days after the clashes had happened.”
The source added: “After they [the six prisoners] arrived at Orumiyeh Central Prison, Hedayat Abdullahpour was taken to psychological care department of the prison, while the other five were taken to the two wings of the prison known to used to jail some of the most dangerous prisoners.”