Political Prisoners Database

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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Hedayat AbdollahpourExecuted

Civilian from Oshnavieh

Detention date: 3 August 2016

Charged with: Armed insurrection

Sentence: Death penalty

Status: Executed on 10 May 2020

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Mohyeddin EbrahimiOrumiyeh Central Prison

Detention date: 3 November 2017

Charged with: Membership in a Kurdish opposition party

Sentence: Death penalty

Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison

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Anvar KhezriRajai Shahr Prison in Karaj

Kurdish 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

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Khosrow BesharatRajai Shahr Prison in Karaj

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

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Kamran SheikhehRajai Shahr Prison in Karaj

Kurdish 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

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Ayoub KarimiRajai 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

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Farhad SalimiRajai 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

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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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