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
Read moreCivilian from Oshnavieh
Detention date: 3 August 2016
Charged with: Armed insurrection
Sentence: Death penalty
Status: Executed on 10 May 2020
Read moreDetention date: 3 November 2017
Charged with: Membership in a Kurdish opposition party
Sentence: Death penalty
Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Read moreKurdish civilian from Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province
Detention date: 21 January 2010
Charged with: Spreading corruption on earth and complicity in murdering a soldier in Mahabad
Sentence: 10 years in prison and death penalty
Current status: Imprisoned in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj
Read moreKurdish 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
Read moreKurdish Sunni civilian
Detention date: 7 December 2009
Charged with: Spreading corruption on earth and killing a soldier in Mahabad
Sentence: Retribution in kind and the death penalty
Current status: Imprisoned in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj
Read moreKurdish Sunni civilian
Detention date: 7 December 2009
Charged with: Spreading corruption on earth
Sentence: Death penalty
Current status: Imprisoned in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj
Read moreKurdish Sunni civilian
Detention date: 7 December 2009
Charged with: Spreading corruption on earth
Sentence: Death penalty
Current status: Imprisoned in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj
Kurdish Sunni civilian
Detention date: 7 December 2009
Charged with: Spreading corruption on earth
Sentence: Death penalty
Current status: Imprisoned in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj
Qassem Abasteh, a Kurdish Sunni prisoner, was detained on 7 December 2009 and taken to the detention centre of the ministry of intelligence in Orumiyeh in north-western Iran. He was interrogated there for eight months on the accusation of “enmity against God” (moharebeh).
Abasteh was then transferred to Evin Prison in Tehran, where he was interrogated in wards 240 and 209 for six months.
On 13 April 2012, the prisoner was eventually transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj.
Qassem Abasteh, a 44-year-old Kurdish political prisoner, was executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj on 5 November after 14 years in prison. Abasteh…
Read MoreKurdish Sunni civilian Detention date: 7 December 2009 Charged with: Spreading corruption on earth Sentence: Death penalty Current status: Imprisoned in Rajai Shahr Prison…
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