Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A young Kurdish man arrested by Iranian police on “drug-related” charges in Tehran on 7 April, has lost his life suspiciously in a police detention centre. The family of the 25-year-old Milad Jafari, from Kermanshah in western Iran, claimed that their son had lost his life due to “torture”. “Milad Jafari was violently arrested by officers of the Criminal Investigation Department on 7 April, along with…

The body of an Iranian Kurdish political activist named Ahmad Bigham has been found dead at his house in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, on 1 January. Bigham’s relatives consider his death “suspicious” due to the signs of torture on his body. Erbil police have not yet made an official statement on the matter. The autopsy results will be announced in the next 20 days. In an…

Officers in Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary have beaten to death a 23-year-old civilian named Amir Hossein Hatami on 22 September after he spent about ten days in the prison. The families and relatives of the civilian, who comes from Ilam province, gathered in front of the prison on 25 September, demanding that the prison authorities be held accountable for Hatami’s death. However, so far, the authorities…

A Kurdish civilian named Rahman Ahmadian has lost his life in the detention centre of the Intelligence and Public Security Police (PAVA) in Orumiyeh. Ahmadian, who comes from the Sir Heydarlu village of Orumiyeh, was arrested on 12 July along with five other residents of the village. A relative of Ahmadian told the KHRN that security police contacted his family on 18 July and said he…

Prisoner Hadi Rostami, who is sentenced to amputation of four fingers of his right hand, has been transferred from Orumiyeh Central Prison to Bukan Prison, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Rostami was transferred from the security ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison to the quarantine ward of Bukan Prison by law enforcement forces on Thursday, 18 February, and was beaten by officers of…

Iran has flogged prisoner Hadi Rostami 60 times on 14 February for “disrupting prison order” in Orumiyeh Prison. Execution of this inhuman sentence given nearly five months earlier, has taken place in Branch 8 of the Enforcement of Judgements Office in Orumiyeh. It was carried out at a time that Hadi Rostami, who is also sentenced to amputation of four fingers of his right hand, was…

A young man sentenced to amputation of his fingers by Iran has attempted to commit suicide twice in Orumiyeh Central Prison, in the past two months. Hadi Rostami, a prisoner sentenced to “amputation of four fingers of his right hand” on the charge of “theft” has twice committed suicide by eating glass to protest his detention in the security ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison and…

A prisoners, sentenced to execution on the charge of “premeditated murder”,” was hanged at Mahabad prison on December 7, local informed sources told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).Kamal Asghari, 23, from Mahabad was arrested 3 years ago on charges of premeditated murder and sentenced to “retribution”(execution). This prisoner from Mahabad was arrested in September 2017 along with Daniel Diwani, Azar and Daniel Zein al-Abedin on…

The Iranian authorities must immediately halt imminent plans to amputate the fingers of six men convicted of robbery following unfair trials and torture-tainted “confessions”, said Amnesty International in a detailed analysis released today. On Nov 27, 2020, a source familiar with the case of Hadi Rostami informed the Kurdistan Human Rights Network that “Hadi Rostami” and two other prisoners known as “Mehdi Sharafian” and “Mehdi Shahivand”…