Kurdish civilians Rauf Sheikh-Maroufi, Mohammad Faraji, and Kamran Soltani have been charged with “spreading corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel arz), a crime that carries the possibility of the death penalty in Iran. The accusations are linked to their alleged “involvement in the murder of a security officer” during the anti-government uprising of Jin Jiyan Azadi (Women Life Freedom) in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province. Sheikh-Maroufi, Faraji and…
Read moreThe bodies of prisoners Nasim Namazi, an Azerbaijani-Turkic woman from Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, and three Kurdish men, Vafa Hanareh, Aram Omari Berdiani, and Rahman Parhazou, have still not been returned to their families a week after they were executed in Orumiyeh Central Prison. These individuals, convicted of “involvement in intelligence cooperation and espionage for Israel”, were transferred to solitary confinement on 27 December and…
Read moreWorries have heightened over the well-being and fate of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), who was detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) almost 29 months ago. Fatemeh Maghsoudi, Faqhi’s mother, expressed her frustration in a video obtained by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), saying that the security forces have not provided clear answers regarding her son’s…
Read moreThe execution order for Reza Rasaei, a Kurdish political prisoner arrested during the anti-government uprising of Women Life Freedom, was sent to the Enforcement of Judgements Office of the Criminal Court of Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, on 31 December, for implementation. On 7 October 2023, Branch Two of the Criminal Court in Kermanshah, presided over by Judge Mohammad Rasoul Haghnejati and consultant Amin Mohammadi, sentenced Rasaei,…
Read moreSadegh Mahmoudnezhad, a 23-year-old protester who suffered an eye injury during the Women Life Freedom anti-government uprising in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, was imprisoned at Naqadeh Prison after being summoned to the Enforcement of Judgements Office in Piranshahr on 2 January. The Islamic Revolutionary Court in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, had sentenced Mahmoudnezhad to five years and six months in prison on charges of “acting…
Read moreThe health of Mohammad Khodkam, a prisoner in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, has been deteriorating since he initiated a hunger strike on 20 December 2023. The prisoner’s protest stems from the decision of Branch Two of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Mahabad, which sentenced him to 17 years in prison and imposed a fine of 1.8 billion rials (approximately 3,600 USD) on drug-related charges. Following the…
Read moreKurdish prisoner of conscience Davoud Abdollahi was executed today after 14 years in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. He went on hunger strike after being transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 26 December and was executed on the seventh day of his hunger strike, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Abdollahi had been sentenced to death along with six others –…
Read moreThe authorities executed prisoners Khodakaram Lorestani and Hossein Mousavand in Parsiloun Prison in Khorramabad, Lorestan Province, on charges related to drug trafficking on 23 December. The prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 22 December. Lorestani, 50, and Mousavand, 43, both from Borujerd in Lorestan Province, were separately arrested in different cases over the past few years.
Read moreIranian authorities have scheduled the execution of at least two prisoners convicted on drug-related charges, with one identified as Karam Lorestani, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The individuals were transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 21 December at Parsiloun Prison in Khorramabad, Lorestan Province. On the same day, prison officials informed the families of the two prisoners that the death sentences would…
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