Read moreKurdish 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
Read moreCivilian from Oshnavieh
Detention date: 3 August 2016
Charged with: Armed insurrection
Sentence: Death penalty
Status: Executed on 10 May 2020
Read moreKurdish 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
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 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
Read moreKurdish 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
Read moreKurdish 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
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
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
Rostam Arkia, a Kurdish civilian and father of two from Maku, was detained by Iranian security forces in Tehran on 1 January 2007 and transferred to the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh.
He was subjected to constant pressure and severe torture for nearly three months to make forced confessions.
After the interrogation, Arkia was transferred to Maku Prison.
Kurdish civilian from Maku Detention date: 1 January 2007 Charged with: Enmity against God through membership in the PJAK Sentence: 20 years in prison…
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