Political Prisoners Database

Osman MostafapourReleased

Kurdish 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

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Omar EmamiReleased

Kurdish 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

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Mohammad NazariReleased

Kurdish civilian from Shahin Dezh

Detention date: 29 May 1994

Charged with: Membership of the KDPI

Sentence: Life sentence

Status: Released on 21 November 2019

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Khezr Rasoul MorovvatReleased

Kurdish 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

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Ghadrieh GhaderiReleased

Kurdish 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

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Ayoub AsadiKashmar Prison

Kurdish 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

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Ghader MohammadzadehYazd Central Prison

Kurdish 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

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Kamal Hassan RamazanReleased

From 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

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Ali Ahmad SuleimanReleased

Kurdish 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

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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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