Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A Kurdish prisoner previously convicted of "premeditated murder" and sentenced to “retribution" was hanged on the morning of October 10, 2019, at Sanandaj Central Prison, an source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Alam Karimi had been arrested about ten years ago for "murdering” his nephew and has been “denying the charges even during the execution,” the source added.  Karimi had been transferred to the solitary confinement cell at Sanandaj prison...

Hossein Mohammadian, a prisoner from Bukan who was arrested in 2004 and sentenced to Qisas (retaliation in kind), has gone on hunger strike in protest to his uncertain fate despite being in prison for 15 years. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that this prisoner, who is being held in Ward 9 of Tabriz Central Prison, had gone on hunger strike on Tuesday, Sept...

Over the past few days, three prisoners charged with murder were executed in Tabriz central prison on two occasions. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, the death sentence of two prisoners charged with murder, “Aqeel Shadehi", from Ajabashir and "Jalal Baba'i" from Maragheh were carried out at Tabriz central prison Another prisoner "Behnam Ranjbar" from Marand was executed on the...

Four prisoners sentenced to execution on the charge of murder were reportedly transferred to solitary confinement at Orumiyeh Central prison from various wards in preparation for execution on July 15. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has identified three of these detainees as Heman Banavand and Mohammad Aref Najafian from ward 3-4 in addition to Abdolkhalegh Royayi from ward 14. It is said that Abdolkhalegh Royayi has...

Four prisoners were executed on murder charges at Orumiyeh's central prison this morning April 23. They were taken from various wards of Orumiyeh central prison to solitary confinement cells yesterday in preparation for execution. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has identified the four prisoners as follows 1 Tayeb Sheikh Nejad, from Piranshahr, imprisoned for six years from ward 3-4 1 Hasan Muhammad Hasan, from Bukan, imprisoned for...

On the morning of Monday November 13, four death row prisoners were executed at Orumiyeh Central Prison They were transferred to solitary confinement at Orumiyeh Central prison from various wards in preparation for execution a day before their executions. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that four of the nine prisoners sentenced to execution who were transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for...

On Wednesday, Nov 1, 2017, a death row prisoner was executed in the central prison of Orumiyeh. He was reportedly transferred from ward 1&2 to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central prison in preparation for execution a day before his execution. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) identified the executed detainee as Tohid Mohammad Baqerloo from Khoy.

A prisoner sentenced to execution on murder charge, was executed at Orumiyeh's central prison on Tuesday, Aug 15. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Khaled Amini from Mahabad was transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central prison a day before his execution. On the evening of July 24, Fatah Amani and his brother (Khaled Amini) both sentenced to Qisas (execution) for murder were transferred to...

Early Monday morning, on July 3, 2017, two prisoners, were transferred to solitary confinement of Orumiyeh Central Prison in preparation for the implementation of their death sentences, on Monday, July 3. All the two prisoners were convicted of murder and sentenced to Qisas (retribution in kind). According to information are obtained by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN),The two prisoners who have been transferred to...