Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A 27-year-old prisoner named Nasser Karimi has lost his life in Bukan Prison on 2 June due to being denied medical treatment after he was tortured, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Karimi was arrested by the agents of the Criminal Investigation Department in Bukan on 30 May and was taken the next day to the quarantine ward of Bukan Prison. After being tortured...

A prisoner named Mikaeil Moeini has been on a hunger strike in Bukan Prison for nine days, protesting the increase in the amount of bail required for being sent on temporary leave, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The prisoner, who has served three years of his four-year sentence, was handcuffed and taken to the gym hall of the prison after the announcement...

The inmates of Ward 2 of Bukan Prison refused to take prison food at noon today in protest to the closure of the prison store and announced that they had gone on a strike. Also, on the orders of the prison authorities, prisoners suspected of coronavirus are transferred to the club hall and locked in bed in handcuffs and leg-cuffs for a week. An informed source...

A young prisoner, Shahin Mostafavi, has been severely beaten by two prison guards on the pretext of protesting the quarantine situation and food at Bukan Prison. The prisoner suffered fractures in several areas as a result of torture, and his condition was reported to be critical. On the night of July 17, 2020, a young prisoner named Shahin Mostafavi was severely beaten in the prison...

"Azad (Jafar) Saeedi, a prisoner sentenced to 25 years in prison, has been on a hunger strike since Monday, June 8, 2020, in protest to the suspension of his furlough and the strict measures  taken by the chief of Bukan Prison” an informed source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). He was beaten last week along with three other prisoners by Habib Mohammadi, Prison’s...

The families of a number of prisoners in Bukan Prison, who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons, have told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the Buken Prison's Chief called Habib Mohammadi had beaten and threatened prisoners.  Bukan Prison has about 250 inmates held in two separate wards. The high population density of prisoners and the prevalence of the Covid-19 virus have raised...

Hadi Tanumand, a labour activist and a member of the Coordination Committee for the Creation of Labours' Union, was sent to Bukan prison to serve his three-and-a-half-year imprisonment sentence. Tanoumand was arrested in June 2013 during the annual general meeting of the Coordination Committee to help establish labour unions in Karaj along with four other members of the committee. He was transferred to...