Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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

Davoud Abdollahi, a Kurdish Sunni prisoner, was detained on 7 December 2009 and transferred to the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh. He was interrogated there for eight months on charges of “enmity against God” (moharebeh).

Abdollahi 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.

Abdollahi and several of his co-defendants were charged with “spreading corruption on earth” (fasad fil-arz), based on claims by the office of intelligence ministry in Orumiyeh that accused them of killing a Sunni cleric named Abdul Rahim Tina.