Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Arsalan Khodkam, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment, was temporarily released today after spending nearly six years behind bars in Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Khodkam has been struggling with sight problems in recent months as a result of being denied access to specialist medical services. Prison authorities informed him in October 2023...

Kurdish political prisoner Arsalan Khodkam, 48, faces the risk of losing his eyesight due to being denied access to medical care at Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province. Khodkam was transferred to the prison infirmary last week due to a drop in his blood pressure. However, an incorrect injection has caused his health to deteriorate further, putting his eyesight at serious risk. Prison authorities have told...

The Ministry of Intelligence has summoned some of the families of political prisoners in Orumiyeh Central Prison and interrogated them following the pressure on the prisoners. Also, in the last few days, the prosecutor of Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, visited the ward of political prisoners and called them "separatists and terrorists" and threatened them with exile to prisons in other cities. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network...

Iran's judiciary amnesty commission has commuted the death sentence of the Kurdish political prisoner Arsalan Khodkam to life imprisonment. Today, 14 April, Arsalan Khodkam was officially summoned to the Enforcement of Judgements Office of Orumiyeh Central Prison and was notified of the reduction of his death penalty to life sentence, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Recently, some Iranian government websites reported the release...

In recent days, there have been reports of the possible execution of Arsalan Khodkam at Orumiyeh Central Prison. In a short video addressed to the public and international Human Rights Organisations, the mother of the Kurdish political prisoner also called for pressure to stop the execution of her son."All the family's efforts to appoint an elected lawyer have been ineffective over the past few...

The death sentence of Arsalan Khodkam, a Kurdish political prisoner detained at Orumiyeh Central Prison, was reduced by Tehran Military court to ten years in prison. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that upon approval of this political prisoner's request for a retrial by Branch 2 of the Supreme Court, his dossier was referred to the Tehran Military court several months ago. The...

Nashmil Ghoytasi from Mahabad was sentenced to one-year of discretionary imprisonment by branch one of Orumiyeh Military Court on charges of acting against national security. She was arrested earlier in April and released on bail a month later. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Nashmil Ghoytasi, wife of the death row Kurdish political prisoner, Arsalan Khodkam, was arrested by Islamic Revolutionary Guards...

The Supreme Court equally approved the death sentence for Arsalan Khodkam, a prisoner detained at Orumiyeh Central Prison, who had previously been sentenced to death by Branch 1 of the Orumieh Military Court on charges of Moharebeh and espionage for one of the Kurdish opposition parties against the regime. In this regard, an informed source has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that Arsalan Khodkam...