Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish Political Prisoners Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostadghader were sentenced to death and five years of imprisonment respectively on the charge of ‘taking up arms against the state,” their attorney Ali Sakeni told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The trial of the Kurdish political prisoners was held at the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on 23 October and their preliminary verdict was served on them on 29 December. Houshmand Alipour...

Two members of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, Hoshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostadghader, were transferred to the prison quarantine of Saqqez after 108 days of detention at the Intelligence Ministry’s Detention Facility. These two political prisoners have visited their families once briefly on Oct 28 and 29 at the Intelligence Ministry’s Detention Facility in the city of Sanandaj with the presence of interrogators. Kurdistan Human...

The family of Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostadghader (Two members of the Kurdistan Freedom Party who were arrested on Aug 3, 2018 by security forces near Saqqez) visited them on Oct 28 and 29. Security interrogators told the families that they will be transferred to the Saqqez {Prosecutor's Office in two weeks. An informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that “Mohammad Ostadaghader's father...