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 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
Omar Emami, a Kurdish political activist from Kamyaran, was arrested during a clash between the forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI) on 23 May 1996.
After his arrest, Emami was taken to Dizelabad Prison in Kermanshah. In the meantime, he was given a life sentence and internal exile to Abarkouh Prison in the city of Yazd, by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Kermanshah on charges of “enmity against God”.
After serving 10 years of his sentence in Dizelabad Prison, he was transferred to Yazd Prison.
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