Kurdish civil activist Shahram Kazemian has been transferred to Orumiyeh central prison after being interrogated at the detention center of Orumiyeh Intelligence Bureau for 26 days.
Kazemian was reportedly detained by security forces in Orumiyeh on January 06. Security investigators interrogated him on charges of “Cooperation with one of the opposition parties”.
Kurdish political prisoners in Orumiyeh Central Prison, West Azerbaijan Province, have been subjected to severe ill-treatment and torture by prison guards, the Kurdistan Human...
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Kurdish political prisoners in Orumiyeh Central Prison, West Azerbaijan Province, have been subjected to severe ill-treatment and torture by prison guards, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Shaker Behrouz, who had previously been sentenced to death for “armed insurrection” (baghi) but whose sentence was overturned in 2023, began a hunger strike on 18 April in protest at a new case against him. The...
The Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran has sentenced Saman Yasin, a Kurdish rapper from Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, to five years of exile imprisonment in Babak, Kerman Province, after one year and seven months of detention. Originally sentenced to death for "enmity against God" (moharebeh), Yasin's sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court on the grounds of flaws in the investigation, leading to a retrial in...
Jamal Mardani, a 54-year-old prisoner from Miandoab, West Azerbaijan Province, was executed on 21 April for drug-related offences in Kerman Central Prison, Kerman Province. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement for the execution on 19 April. Mardani, a father of four from the village of Gug Jalu in Miandoab, was arrested about four years ago.
The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, has extended the temporary detention of Kurdish civilians Rauf Sheikh-Maroufi, Mohammad Faraji and Kamran Soltani for two more months. The trio, who were previously charged with "spreading corruption on earth" (efsad-e fel arz) for their alleged "involvement in the murder of a security officer" during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Bukan, have...
The whereabouts of Kamal Lotfi, the father of Reza Lotfi, one of the protesters killed during the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom in Dehgolan, Kurdistan Province, remain unknown ten days after his arrest. Lotfi was recently sentenced to a total of five years in prison by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Dehgolan. On 9 April, Lotfi was arrested after being summoned to the Public and...