Political Prisoners Database

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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Davoud AbdollahiRajai 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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Hossein OsmaniOrumiyeh Central Prison

Kurdish civilian from Mahabad

Detention date: 23 February 2014

Charged with: Enmity against God through membership in the Komala

Sentence: 30 years in prison and internal exile in Kashmar Central Prison

Current status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison

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Qassem AbastehRajai 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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Zeynab Jalalian – Yazd Prison


Kurdish political activist from Maku
Detention date: 26 February 2008
Charged with: Membership of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) and taking up arms against the Islamic Republic of Iran
Sentence: Life sentence
Current status: Imprisoned in Yazd Prison

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Kurdish civilian from Marivan, Kurdistan province

Detention date: 15 June 2011

Charged with: Collaboration with the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan

Sentence: 20 years in prison and internal exile to Kashmar Prison

Current status: Imprisoned in Kashmar Prison

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested Ayoub Asadi, a civilian from Marivan in Iran’s northwestern province of Kurdistan, along with a civilian named Mohammad Hossein Rezaei, on 15 June 2011, near the village of Bouryer in Sarvabad district of Kurdistan province.

At the time of detention, the IRGC forces opened fire on and wounded both Asadi and Rezaei, and killed a farmer from the village, who was in the vicinity.

Asadi was transferred to Sanandaj Central Prison on 8 February 2012.

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