Wrisha Moradi, a member of the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR) with the organisational code name of Jwana Sna, remains detained in Tehran’s Evin Prison, Ward 209, more than four and a half months after her arrest by security forces in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that after her arrest on 1 August, Moradi was transferred to the…
Read moreYarsani Kurdish writer and researcher Mozhgan Kavousi has been sent to Tonekabon Prison in Mazandaran Province to serve a 39-month sentence, following a court order. Kavousi, a former political prisoner, was summoned to the Enforcement of Judgements Office of Sari Court in Mazandaran Province and taken to Tonekabon Prison on 18 December, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. In October, Branch Nine of the…
Read morePrisoner Farzad Gol-Mohammadi, 32, was executed today in Sanandaj Central Prison on charges of “premeditated murder.” Gol-Mohammadi was moved to solitary confinement for execution on 18 December. He had previously been transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 9 December, but for unknown reasons the execution was temporarily halted and he was returned to the ward two days later. Gol-Mohammadi, from the village of Palangan in Kamyaran,…
Read moreHadi Rostami, a prisoner sentenced to amputation, went on hunger strike on 17 December to protest his transfer on 16 December from Orumiyeh Central Prison to Fashafoyeh Prison, also known as Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Hadi Rostami was summoned to the Orumiyeh Central Prison Guard Office on 14 December and transferred to Fashafoyeh Prison on the…
Read morePrisoner Obaid Mahmoudi was executed for murder-related charges in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, on 13 December. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement for execution in recent days. Mahmoudi, a father of one child from the village of Quri Qaleh in Ravansar, Kermanshah Province, was arrested and sentenced to death in October 2021 on charges of “premeditated murder” of a woman.
Read moreKurdish civilians Jalal Amini, Kazem Mam-Esmaeil, Hossein Ahmadi and Younes Mahmoudzadeh were taken to Bukan Prison in West Azerbaijan Province on 12 December to begin serving 30, 12, 26 and 30 month sentences respectively. In January, Branch 101 of the Bukan Criminal Court convicted the four prisoners of “action against national security” through membership of a Kurdish opposition party and “propaganda against the state”. The court…
Read morePrisoner Davoud Khademi was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison on 12 December, convicted of “premeditated murder”. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 11 December. Khademi, who was a 30-year-old father of two children from Marivan, Kurdistan Province, was arrested about four years ago on charges of “premeditated murder” and subsequently sentenced to death.
Read morePakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish former political prisoner and social work graduate from the University of Allameh Tabatabaei in Tehran, was transferred to the women’s ward of Evin Prison in Tehran on 11 December after four months of interrogation in Ward 209 of the prison. Since her arrest, Azizi has been denied access to legal representation and communication with her family. Azizi, who comes from Mahabad, West…
Read moreKurdish civilian Fereshteh Hosseini today began serving an eight-month prison sentence in Orumiyeh Central Prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. In February, Branch 101 of the Criminal Court of Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, sentenced Hosseini to eight months in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state”, which was later upheld by the West Azerbaijan Province Court of Appeal in November. Hosseini was…
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