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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 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
Osman Mostafapour, a Kurdish civilian from Piranshahr born in 1967, was arrested on 14 July 1991 after a clash between a number of Peshmerga forces of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI) and forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the Asengaran valley in Targavar region of Orumiyeh.
Mostafapour was arrested along with two other members of the KDPI named Molla Jassem Delneshin and Ayoub Jahangiri.
The three detainees were interrogated and severely tortured physically and mentally for six months in the detention centres of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC and the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh.
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