Read moreKurdish civilian from Piranshahr
Detention date: 14 July 1991
Charged with: Membership in the KDPI
Sentence: 35 years in prison
Current status: Released on 21 November 2019
Read moreKurdish civilian from Kamyaran
Detention: 23 May 1996
Charged with: Enmity against God through membership in the KDPI
Sentence: Life sentence
Current status: Released on 17 December 2019
Read moreKurdish civilian from Shahin Dezh
Detention date: 29 May 1994
Charged with: Membership of the KDPI
Sentence: Life sentence
Status: Released on 21 November 2019
Read moreKurdish civilian from Miandoab
Detention date: 26 February 2013
Charged with: Acting against national security
Sentence: Five years in prison
Current status: Released on 14 November 2017
Read moreKurdish civilian from Orumiyeh
Detention date: June 2011
Charged with: Membership in the PKK
Sentence: Seven years in prison
Current status: Released on 7 June 2017
Read moreKurdish civilian from Marivan, Kurdistan province
Detention date: 15 June 2011
Charged with: Collaboration with the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan
Sentence: 20 years in prison and internal exile to Kashmar Prison
Current status: Imprisoned in Kashmar Prison
Read moreKurdish Civilian from Bukan
Detention date: 20 December 2005
Charged with: Enmity against God
Sentence: 18 years in prison and internal exile in Yazd Central Prison
Current status: Sent on temporary leave on 15 March 2022
Read moreFrom Sarekaniye in the Kurdish region of Syria
Detention date: 28 August 2014
Charged with: Membership in the PKK and enmity against God for killing a member of the IRGC
Sentence: Seven years in prison and the death penalty
Current status: Released from Orumiyeh Central Prison and returned to Damascus on 26 July 2020
Read moreKurdish civilian from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Detention date: 17 November 2005
Charged with: Membership in PJAK, murdering two local members of the IRGC, illegal entry to the country, propaganda against the state in prison
Sentence: Five years in prison, death penalty and nine and a half years in prison, six months in prison, one year in prison
Current status: Released from Orumiyeh Central Prison on 22 February 2021
Kurdish Sunni civilian
Detention date: February 2010
Charged with: Spreading corruption on earth and complicity in killing a soldier in Mahabad
Sentence: 10 years in prison and death penalty
Current Status: Imprisoned in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj
Khosrow Besharat, a Kurdish Sunni prisoner, was detained in February 2010 and taken to the detention centre of the office of intelligence ministry in Orumiyeh, where he was interrogated for eight months on the accusation of “enmity against God” (moharebeh).
Besharat was then transferred to Evin Prison in Tehran, where he was interrogated in wards 240 and 209 for six months.
He was eventually transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj on 13 April 2012.
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