Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Branch 101 of the Second Criminal Court in Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, recently sentenced civilian Ali Gol-Mohammadi to 22 months in prison. The court charged the civilian with “acting against national security” on the grounds that he was a member of a Kurdish opposition party. On 15 January, security forces arrested Gol-Mohammadi in Bukan without a court order. After initial interrogations, he was transferred to the city…

Branch Two of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh has sentenced Kurdish political prisoner Nayeb Askari again to death on charges of “enmity against God” (moharebeh) through “membership” in the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK). In 2018, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh sentenced him to death on the same charge in absentia. The sentence was overturned after his appeal against the ruling and was referred…

Iran has sentenced a Kurdish Sunni cleric to a suspended prison term and arrested two other clerics over the past few days. The Special Clerical Court of Hamadan, in western Iran, summoned and tried Hossein Ali-Moradi, the director of the Ebrahim Khalilollah School of Religious Studies in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 3 April. The court sentenced Ali-Moradi to two years of suspended imprisonment on charges of…

Branch 102 of the Criminal Court in Iran’s Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, sentenced prisoner Hadi Rostami to eight months in prison and 45 lashes for “disturbing the prison order” in the past few days, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The case was filed following a complaint by Farhad Hajebi Miandoabi, head of the inspection office at Orumiyeh Central Prison. Similarly, in 2020, Rostami…

Civil rights activist Shilan Kurdistani has been sentenced in recent days to a total of 40 months of suspended imprisonment in Iran. Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, sentenced her to 40 months in prison as follows: two years and nine months for “membership of an illegal group” for her membership of the Zhivano Women’s Association, and seven months in…

The Branch Three of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh has sentenced civilians Nasim Namazi, Vafa Hanareh, Aram Omari Berdiani, Rahman Parhazou and Mansour Rasouli to death on charges of “participation in intelligence cooperation and espionage for Israel” over the past few weeks. The court also sentenced five other civilians, Kamran Hanareh, Fakhroddin Doudkanlou Milan, Ashkan Osmannezhad Ganduk, Hassan Omarpour, and Amir Moshtagh Gangachin, to…

The Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Ilam, in north-west Iran, has sentenced Kurdish teacher Ahmad Alizadeh to a total of six years, seven months and 17 days in prison and other additional penalties. The court charged Alizadeh with “forming a group of more than two individuals with the intention of disrupting national security” and “propaganda against the state”, Kurdistan Human Rights Network…

The Branch Nine of Iran’s Supreme Court has acquitted Kurdish political prisoner Towhid Darvish of “enmity against God”, overturning the ruling of the lower court and referring the case back to the court for investigation. In early January, the Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tabriz, East Azerbaijan province, sentenced Darvish to 10 years of imprisonment in exile in Ahvaz prison and payment…

The Branch Nine of Iran’s Supreme Court has overturned Kurdish political prisoner Hatem Ozdemir’s death sentence in the past few days, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The court referred the case to the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, for re-investigation. Ozdemir, who holds Turkish citizenship, was previously sentenced to death by Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Khoy,…