Branch 3 of Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court has rejected the conditional release of Osman Mustafapour, the Kurdish political prisoner, who has been in prison since 1991 although the Orumiyeh Prosecutor’s Office had already agreed with the request.
Per reports received by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), last week the Orumiyeh prosecutor announced that they had agreed with the conditional release of Osman Mustafapour and the prisoner’s definitive release subject to the consent of the issuing branch.
However, the Branch 3 of Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court dismissed the application filed by the prosecutor’s office regarding the conditional release of this political prisoner. This political prisoner has not had any furlough during his 28 years imprisonment.
Osman Mostafapour, born in 1967, was arrested along with two other members of the PDKI known as Mullah Jasem Delneshin and Ayoub Jahangiri on July 14, 1991 following the clashes between a number of Peshmergah of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (PDKI) and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) forces in the Asen Gran Valley of Orumiyeh. They were detained for six months in the IRGC Detention Facility in the City of Orumiyeh under intense physical and psychological torture.
On December 18,1991 after the interrogations were completed, all three were transferred to the quarantine of Orumiyeh Central Prison. On December 5,1991 they were sentenced to death by the Branch 1 of Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh, chaired by Judge Johari, without the right to have a lawyer on charges of membership in Iran’s Democratic Party of Kurdistan.
Following the confirmation of the death sentences of these three Kurdish political prisoners by the Court of Appeal in the summer of 1992, Mullah Jasem was hanged and Ayoub Jahangiri was executed at Orumiyeh Central Prison the following year. In 1993, i.e. a year after the execution of these two political prisoners, Osman Mustafapour was exiled to Tabriz Central Prison where he spent two years of his imprisonment sentence.
In 1996, Osman Mustafapour was transferred back to Orumiyeh Central Prison and his death sentence was reduced to 10 years of imprisonment in 2000. However, in the same year, the Branch 3 of Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh sentenced him to 25 years in prison on charges of membership in the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which meant that this political prisoner should serve a total sentence of 35 years in prison, including his previous conviction.
He has lost his mother, one sister and one brother during his 27 years of imprisonment, but he has not been allowed to attend their funeral due to the opposition of the Prosecutor’s Office and Orumiyeh Intelligence office.
