Political Prisoners Database

Rostam ArkiaReleased on Parole

Kurdish civilian from Maku

Detention date: 1 January 2007

Charged with: Enmity against God through membership in the PJAK

Sentence: 20 years in prison and internal exile to Yazd Central Prison

Current status: Released on parole on 9 March 2022

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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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Ahmad TamouiReleased

Kurdish civilian from Salmas, West Azerbaijan province

Detention date: 24 October 2007

Charged with: Enmity against God through membership in the PJAK

Sentence: 15 years in prison and internal exile to Orumiyeh Central Prison

Current status: Released on 16 December 2021

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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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Hassan Rastegari-MajdOrumiyeh Central Prison

Kurdish civilian and citizen of Iran and Turkey

Detention date: 27 October 2014

Charged with: Membership in the PKK, disrupting public order, acting against national security, illegal residence in the country, propaganda against the state in prison, disrupting prison order

Sentence: 19 years and three months in prison and 20 lashes, of which 15 years are enforceable in accordance to the Article 134

Current status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison

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Mostafa SabziOrumiyeh Central Prison

Kurdish civilian from Maku

Detention date: June 2014

Charged with: Membership in the PJAK

Sentence: 15 years in prison

Current status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison

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Khaled (Sadegh) ZamaniYazd Central Prison

Kurdish civilian from Maku

Detention date: 30 June 2008

Charged with: Membership of the PJAK

Sentence: 30 years in prison and internal exile to the Yazd Central Prison

Current status: Imprisoned in Yazd 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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Kurdish civilian and citizen of Iran and Turkey

Detention date: 27 October 2014

Charged with: Membership in the PKK, disrupting public order, acting against national security, illegal residence in the country, propaganda against the state in prison, disrupting prison order

Sentence: 19 years and three months in prison and 20 lashes, of which 15 years are enforceable in accordance to the Article 134

Current status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison

Hassan Rastegari-Majd, a Kurdish civilian living in Orumiyeh, was arrested by Iranian security forces on 26 October 2014 for participating in “rallies in support of the Kobani resistance” in Orumiyeh, along with at least 15 other Kurdish civilians.

He was then taken to the ward 3-4 of the prison of Orumiyeh. After about a year he was transferred to the psychiatric ward of the prison – the ward for prisoners with drug offences.

In September 2015, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh sentenced the prisoner to 15 years in prison on charges such as “disrupting public order”, “acting against national security”, and “membership in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)”.

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Hassan Rastegari-Majd – Orumiyeh Central Prison

Kurdish civilian and citizen of Iran and Turkey Detention date: 27 October 2014 Charged with: Membership in the PKK, disrupting public order, acting against…

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