Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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”…

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the amputation sentence of four fingers of the right hand” of three prisoners accused of robbery at Orumiyeh Central Prison, -Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Sharafian and Mehdi Shahivand- was approved by the Supreme Court and sent to the Orumiyeh Enforcement Office to be executed. According to the indictments filed by Branch 13 of the Supreme Court, headed…

On Tuesday, August 11, the Iranian border guards in Nawsoud, Kermanshah province, tortured a middle-aged Kurdish Border Porter –known as Kolbar- Reza Abdollahi during his temporary detention, a local source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The Kolbar has suffered serious head injuries from a gunshot wound to the head. He is from the village of “Tavgozi” in the city of Salas Babajani in Kermanshah province….

Kurdish civil rights activist Voria Delangiz who had previously been sentenced by the Marivan Criminal Court to four months in prison and 24 lashes for “disturbing public order,” was sent to prison, on Sunday, August 09. The trial of this activist was held on March 4. Voria Delangiz was arrested in September 2017 after being summoned to the Marivan Intelligence Office and was released on bail…

on Friday morning, August 7, a prisoner accused of drug crimes attacked Soheila Hijab, a political prisoner in Qarchak prison, and stabbed her several times in the abdomen with a broken glass, a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Due to severe bleeding, the political prisoner has been transferred from the quarantine ward to the prison health center and from there to a…