Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Farzad Khademi, a prisoner convicted of "premeditated murder", was executed today in Saqqez Prison, in Kurdistan Province. He was transferred to solitary confinement on 23 April in preparation for his execution. Khademi, from of Saqqez, was arrested in July 2020 and sentenced to death under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate.

Kurdish political prisoner Keyvan Rashozadeh continues to be denied medical treatment for injuries sustained as a result of torture by prison authorities, as he enters the seventh day of his hunger strike in solitary confinement at Orumiyeh Central Prison. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that despite his injuries, Rashozadeh has been denied access to medical services on the orders of Peyman Khanzadeh,...

Kurdish political prisoner Abdolaziz Gol-Mohammadi attempted suicide in Orumiyeh Central Prison today in protest at the authorities' refusal to grant him temporary leave, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Gol-Mohammadi's suicide attempt is the second incident of self-harm by Kurdish political prisoners in Orumiyeh Central Prison, underlining the pressure and deprivation of legal rights faced by inmates. In similar circumstances, on 26 February, Shahin...

Kurdish political prisoners in Orumiyeh Central Prison, West Azerbaijan Province, have been subjected to severe ill-treatment and torture by prison guards, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Shaker Behrouz, who had previously been sentenced to death for “armed insurrection” (baghi) but whose sentence was overturned in 2023, began a hunger strike on 18 April in protest at a new case against him. The...

Jamal Mardani, a 54-year-old prisoner from Miandoab, West Azerbaijan Province, was executed on 21 April for drug-related offences in Kerman Central Prison, Kerman Province. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement for the execution on 19 April. Mardani, a father of four from the village of Gug Jalu in Miandoab, was arrested about four years ago.