Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Omid Saeidi has entered his ninth day of a hunger strike in Khoy Prison, in north-west Iran, and his physical condition is reported to be poor. Saeidi began his hunger strike on 4 July in protest at the opposition of the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, to his furlough request, and sewed his lips together as a symbol of…

Kurdish political prisoner Omid Saeidi, who started a hunger strike on 4 July by sewing his lips in protest against the opposition of the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, to his temporary leave, was threatened with transfer to another city. The threats of exile came during a meeting on the third day of Saeidi’s hunger strike when he met Khoy Posecutor Yaghoub…

Omid Saeidi, a Kurdish political prisoner serving a ten-year sentence in Khoy Prison, has gone on a hunger strike in protest at the Ministry of Intelligence’s opposition to granting him temporary leave. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that today the political prisoner delivered a letter announcing his hunger strike to prison authorities. In the letter, Saeidi wrote that he was transferred to Khoy…

Omid Shah-Mohammadi, a member of the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union in Divandarreh, Kurdistan Province, has been released from Bijar Prison with an electronic monitoring device in recent days. As part of the conditions of his release, Shah-Mohammadi is subject to a travel restriction of one kilometre from his family home in the city of Divandarreh, Kurdistan province, until the end of his one-year sentence on 16…

Kurdish political prisoner Hatem Ozdemir, who was transferred on 23 June from Orumiyeh Central Prison to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Khoy, West Azerbaijan province, was returned to prison on 29 June. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that security interrogators from the Ministry of Intelligence threatened Ozdemir, who has Turkish citizenship, that if he did not cooperate they would extradite…

Kurdish political prisoner Nayeb Askari, who is on death row, was transferred from the political ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison to ward 3 of the prison on the orders of the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that prison officials visited the political ward of the prison today and told Askari that he was not allowed to stay…

One prisoner has been fatally stabbed following a fight at Orumiyeh Central Prison in north-west Iran in recent days. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the fight, believed to be related to the sale of drugs inside the prison, broke out between prisoners accused of “robbery” and resulted in the death of prisoner Erfan Babrizadeh. The 26-year-old prisoner was serving a four-year sentence…

Kurdish political prisoner Houshmand Alipour, who is serving an eight-year sentence in Sanandaj Central Prison, went on a hunger strike on 26 June in protest at being deprived of his conditional release. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Alipour, who has served five years of his eight-year sentence, has had his conditional release denied due to opposition from the security services. The political…

Hatem Ozdemir, a Kurdish political prisoner whose death sentence was overturned by the Iranian Supreme Court in March, was transferred from Orumiyeh Central Prison to an undisclosed location on 23 June, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The political prisoner was reportedly handed over to security forces after being summoned to the prison’s security office. Ozdemir has been suffering from kidney stones since his…