Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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

Kamran Sheikheh, a Kurdish Sunni prisoner, was detained on 7 December 2009 and taken to the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh, where he was interrogated for eight months on the accusation of “enmity against God” (moharebeh).

Sheikheh was then transferred to Evin Prison in Tehran, where he was interrogated in wards 240 and 209 for six months.

The prisoner was eventually transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj on 13 April 2012.