Yousef Kaka Mami Archives - KHRN

September 6, 2016

Two Kurdish political prisoners remain in jail despite serving sentences in Iran

Two Kurdish political prisoners Yusef Kake Mami and Aliraza Rasouli have served their jail sentences in Iran but they have remained in jail facing new charges. Yusef Kake Mami served nine years in prison and Aliraza Rasouli served 42 months in jail but the Iranian authorities have refused them the right to be released and brought new charges against them. “Yusef Kake Mami, a Kurdish...

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January 26, 2016

Kurdish political prisoner in Iran gets five more years in jail ahead of release

The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh has sentenced Kurdish political prisoner Youssef Kakemami to five more years in prions after he tried to communicate with international human rights organizations, a Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) source said. “Kakemami was verbally told of the verdict by Iranian officials of the Orumiyeh Central Prison on 18 January and he was not shown a copy of the...

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