Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Mohammad Moradi has been released from Naqadeh Prison, northwestern Iran, on 12 March, on a heavy bail of 8 billion Tomans – nearly 320,000 USD. In late February, Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province, sentenced Moradi to 15 years of life in exile in the city of Chavarzaq in Zanjan Province, northwestern Iran. It charged the political...

The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad, northwestern Iran, has issued a bail of 8 billion Tomans, nearly 320,000 USD, for the release of the Kurdish political prisoner Mohammad Moradi. This decision by Branch 1 of the court on 27 February could lead to the temporary release of Moradi who has been in detention since April 2018. In addition, the trial of the Kurdish civilian on charges...

The head of Naghadeh Prison in Iran's northwestern province of West Azerbaijan has rejected the transfer of the ill Kurdish political prisoner Mohammad Moradi to a hospital outside the prison for treatment. Moradi has been in poor physical condition for more than half a year due to hernia. The prison head's refusal comes despite the prison medical doctors' advice about the need for Moradi's treatment in...

Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad has sentenced the Kurdish political prisoner Mohammad Moradi to 40 years in prison and internal exile to Orumiyeh Central Prison on charges of “armed insurrection” (baghi) through “membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI)”. A relative of the political prisoner confirmed the news to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and said: "Mohammad Moradi...

Two Kurdish detainees Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini and Mohammad Moradi have been tried in the past days on charges of "armed insurrection" (baghi), in Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad, presided over by Judge Javad Gholami. Conviction to “enmity against God” can lead to the death penalty according to the Iranian Islamic Penal Code. Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, a resident of Naqadeh, West Azerbaijan province,...

Death row prisoner Mohammad Moradi was hanged on 17 December in Iran's Saqqez prison five years after he was sentenced to death for murder.  The 27-year-old convict from Saqqez was taken to solitary confinement a day before his execution was carried.

Mohammad Moradi, a Kurdish resident of Piranshahr who has been in custody since May last year, has announced his hunger strike in Naqadeh prison, a close relative of the detainee told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) in an interview. According to this source, Mohammad Moradi has gone on hunger in Ward 3 of Naqadeh prison since February 11 in protest against the uncertainty about...