Hiwa – Database of Political Prisoners

List of Political Prisoners

Hiwa is the hope for a bright horizon from the darkness of prison. Here, we have dedicated pages to each of the Kurdish prisoners and detainees in Iran’s prisons and security detention centres to document a portion of the suffering and injustice inflicted on their lives and rights. It is an effort against forgetting and a call for justice.

Ramin Zaleh

Born: Naqadeh, West Azerbaijan Province

Field of activity: Unknown

Charged With: Armed insurrection (baghi)

Sentence: Death penalty

Current Status: Executed

Rauf Sheikh-Maroufi

Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province

Field of activity: Participant in Anti-Government Protests

Charged With: Enmity against God (moharebeh)

Sentence: Death penalty

Current Status: Imprisoned in Bukan Prison

Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri

Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province

Field of activity: Participant in Anti-Government Protests

Charged With: Armed insurrection (baghi) – Assembly and collusion with intent to commit a crime against the security of the country – Collaboration with hostile states – Espionage

Sentence: Death penalty overturned by Supreme Court, case referred to Islamic Revolutionary Court in Mahabad

Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison

Saadollah Aeini

Born: Dehloran, Ilam Province

Field of activity: Participant in Anti-Government Protests

Charged With: Assembly and collusion with intent to commit a crime against the security of the country – Disrupting public order and peace

Sentence: 12 years imprisonment

Current Status: Imprisoned in Ilam Central Prison

Sadegh Mahmoudnezhad

Born: Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province

Field of activity: Participant in Anti-Government Protests

Charged With: Acting against national security – Propaganda against the state

Sentence: Five years and six months of imprisonment, fine

Current Status: Imprisoned in Naqadeh Prison

Sakineh Parvaneh

Born: Quchan, Razavi Khorasan Province

Field of activity: Political Activist

Charged With: Assembly and collusion with intent to commit a crime against the security of the country – Insulting the leader – Propaganda against the state

Sentence: Total of seven years and six months imprisonment

Current Status: Imprisoned in Evin Prison

Saman Yasin

Born: Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province

Field of activity: Literary, Cultural, and Artistic Activist – Participant in Anti-Government Protests

Charged With: Assembly and collusion with intent to commit a crime against the security of the country

Sentence: Five years imprisonment coupled with exile in Shahr-e Babak prison in Kerman Province

Current Status: On medical leave

Seyvan Ebrahimi

Born: Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province

Field of activity: Literary, Cultural, and Artistic Activist

Charged With: Disrupting public order and peace – Forming or leading a group or assembly with the intention of disrupting national security – Propaganda against the state

Sentence: One year and eight months imprisonment

Current Status: Released