Hiwa – Database of Political Prisoners
Map of Prisons and Secret Detention Centres
Hiwa means “Hope” in Kurdish Sorani. Hiwa aims to serve as a comprehensive database on Kurdish political prisoners in Iran, illuminating their cases and striving to bring light to the darkened corners of prisons.
- Borazjan Prison
- Bukan Prison
- Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah
- Evin Prison
- Ilam Central Prison
- Iranshahr Prison
- Juvenile Detention Centre of Sanandaj
- Kamyaran Prison
- Karaj Central Penitentiary
- Kashmar Prison
- Khoy Prison
- Mahabad Prison
- Minab Prison
- Naqadeh Prison
- Orumiyeh Central Prison
- Oshnavieh Prison
- Sanandaj Central Prison
- Saqqez Prison
- Tabriz Central Prison
- Tonekabon Prison
- Yazd Central Prison
- 81 Ramazan Detention Centre of IRGC's Intelligence Organisation
- Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Kermanshah
- Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Orumiyeh
- Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj
- Nabi Akram Detention Centre of IRGC’s Intelligence Organisation
- Shahramfar Detention Centre of IRGC’s Intelligence Organisation
- Unknown
All
Abdolaziz Gol-Mohammadi
Born: Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: 10 years and one day imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Akam Khezrzadeh
Born: Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Membership of a group or assembly with the intention of disrupting national security/ Membership of opposition groups
Sentence: Two years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Naqadeh Prison
Alan Daghdar
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Participant in Anti-Government Protests
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: Pending
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Ali Ghassemi
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 – Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: Pending
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Anvar Chaleshi
Born: Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: Seven years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Asaad Mohammadi
Born: Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Civil Rights Activist
Charged With: Propaganda against the state
Sentence: One year imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Sanandaj Central Prison
Ashkan Fahim
Born: Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Literary, Cultural, and Artistic Activist
Charged With: Assembly and collusion with intent to commit a crime against the security of the country
Sentence: Three years and nine months imprisonment, two years of exile
Current Status: Imprisoned in Mahabad Prison
Ayoub Asadi
Born: Marivan, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: 20 years of imprisonment in exile
Current Status: Imprisoned in Kashmar Prison in Razavi Khorasan Province
Ayoub Javanpour
Born: Saqqez, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Civil Rights Activist
Charged With: Forming or leading a group or assembly with the intention of disrupting national security – Insulting the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran – Insulting the leader – Propaganda against the state
Sentence: Four years of imprisonment and 15 months of exile
Current Status: Imprisoned in Saqqez Prison
Bahman Mahmoudi-Azar
Born: Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: Seven years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Oshnavieh Prison
Baset Karimi
Born: Baneh, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Complicity in armed insurrection (baghi)
Sentence: 20 years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Sanandaj Central Prison
Fereshteh Hosseini
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Unknown
Charged With: Propaganda against the state
Sentence: Eight months imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Foad Fathi
Born: Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Labour/Trade Union Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security – Propaganda against the state
Sentence: Four years imprisonment with additional penalties
Current Status: Imprisoned in Evin Prison
Galawezh Mohammadi-Arshad
Born: Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Unknown
Charged With: Unknown
Arrest Date: 2024-08-14
Current Status: Detained
Ghader Mohammadzadeh
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: 20 years and six months imprisonment, payment of blood money (diyeh)
Current Status: Unknown
Habib Latifi
Born: Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: Life imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Sanandaj Central Prison
Hajar Saeidi
Born: Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Labour/Trade Union Activist – Women’s Rights/Gender Equality Activist
Charged With: Assembly and collusion with intent to commit a crime against the security of the country
Sentence: One year imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in the Juvenile Detention Centre of Sanandaj
Hassan Mardani
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: Three years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Bukan Prison
Hatem Ozdemir
Born: Agri, Kurdistan of Turkey
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Armed insurrection (baghi) – Membership of a group or assembly with the intention of disrupting national security/ Membership of opposition groups
Sentence: Death penalty
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Hazhar Delsouz
Born: Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Membership of a group or assembly with the intention of disrupting national security/ Membership of opposition groups
Sentence: Two years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Naqadeh Prison
Hiwa Nouri
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Sunni Activist
Charged With: Armed insurrection (baghi)
Sentence: Pending
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Hossein Khosravi
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Sunni Activist
Charged With: Armed insurrection (baghi)
Sentence: Pending
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Hossein Osmani
Born: Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: 30 years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Javanmard Mam-Khosravi
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 – Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: Pending
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Kamal Lotfi
Born: Dehgolan, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Justice-Seeking Family
Charged With: Insulting the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran – Insulting the leader – Propaganda against the state
Sentence: Two years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Kamyaran Prison
Kamal Sharifi
Born: Saqqez, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: 30 years imprisonment and exile
Current Status: Imprisoned in Minab Prison, Hormozgan Province
Kamel Jabbarvand
Born: Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: Seven years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Kamran Ghassemi
Born: Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: Seven years and six months imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Kamran Soltani
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Participant in Anti-Government Protests
Charged With: Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: Pending
Current Status: Imprisoned in Bukan Prison
Kaveh Salehi
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Participant in Anti-Government Protests
Sentence: Pending
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Keyvan Rashozadeh
Born: Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: Seven years and six months imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Khaled Zamani
Born: Khoy, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: 30 years imprisonment in exile
Current Status: Imprisoned in Yazd Central Prison
Khoshnaw Eyni
Born: Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: Two years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Oshnavieh prison
Loghman Pishyar
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: Three years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Bukan Prison
Manizheh Khoshnoud
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Unknown
Charged With: Unknown
Arrest Date: 2024-07-31
Current Status: Detained
Mashallah Karami
Born: Bijar, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Justice-Seeking Family
Charged With: Assembly and collusion with intent to commit a crime against the security of the country – Propaganda against the state
Sentence: 14 years and 10 months imprisonment, fine and confiscation of assets
Current Status: Imprisoned in Karaj Central Penitentiary
Mohammad Faraji
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Participant in Anti-Government Protests
Sentence: Pending
Current Status: Imprisoned in Bukan Prison
Mohammad Feyzi
Born: Baneh, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Complicity in armed insurrection (baghi)
Sentence: 20 years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Sanandaj Central Prison
Mohammad Karimi
Born: Baneh, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Complicity in armed insurrection (baghi)
Sentence: 25 years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Sanandaj Central Prison
Mohammad Khaled Rasoulzadeh
Born: Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Unknown
Charged With: Unknown
Arrest Date: 2024-07-09
Current Status: Detained
Mohammad Khezrnezhad
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Sunni Activist
Charged With: Propaganda against the state – Spreading corruption on earth (efsad-e fel arz)
Sentence: 16 years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Mohammad Tadayyoni
Born: Marivan, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Assembly and collusion with intent to commit a crime against the security of the country
Sentence: Three years and nine months imprisonment, two years of exile
Current Status: Imprisoned in Mahabad Prison
Mohsen Azizi
Born: Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: Two years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Oshnavieh Prison
Motalleb Ahmadian
Born: Baneh, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: 30 years imprisonment in exile
Current Status: Imprisoned in Evin Prison in Tehran
Mozaffar Sakanvand Lakran
Born: Maku, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: 20 years imprisonment and exile to Borazjan Prison in Bushehr Province
Current Status: Imprisoned in Borazjan Prison
Mozhgan Kavousi
Born: Kelardasht, Mazandaran Province
Field of activity: Literary, Cultural, and Artistic Activist
Charged With: Inciting and provoking people to war and murder with the intent to disrupt national security – Insulting the leader – Propaganda against the state
Sentence: One year imprisonment
Current Status: Open prison in Tonekabon Prison
Nayeb Askari
Born: Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Armed insurrection (baghi)
Sentence: Death penalty
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Nayeb Hajizadeh
Born: Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: 10 years and one day imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Omid Saeidi
Born: Khoy, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: 10 years and one day of imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Khoy Prison
Osman Delsouz
Born: Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Membership of a group or assembly with the intention of disrupting national security/ Membership of opposition groups
Sentence: Two years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Naqadeh Prison
Osman Esmaeili
Born: Saqqez, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Labour/Trade Union Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security – Propaganda against the state
Sentence: 16 months imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Saqqez Prison
Pakhshan Azizi
Born: Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist – Women’s Rights/Gender Equality Activist
Charged With: Armed insurrection (baghi) – Membership of a group or assembly with the intention of disrupting national security/ Membership of opposition groups
Sentence: Death penalty
Current Status: Imprisoned in Evin Prison in Tehran
Parham Parvari
Born: Saqqez, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Participant in Anti-Government Protests
Charged With: Acting against national security – Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: 10 years imprisonment in exile
Current Status: Imprisoned in Iranshahr Prison in Sistan and Baluchestan Province
Pezhman Soltani
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 – Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: Pending
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Pirout Tabnak
Born: Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: Two years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Oshnavieh Prison
Rauf Sheikh-Maroufi
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Participant in Anti-Government Protests
Charged With: Spreading corruption on earth (efsad-e fel arz)
Sentence: Pending
Current Status: Imprisoned in Bukan Prison
Rizgar Beygzadeh Baba-Miri
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Participant in Anti-Government Protests
Sentence: Pending
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh 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
Salam Khezrnezhad
Born: Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Unknown
Charged With: Unknown
Arrest Date: 2024-08-12
Current Status: Detained
Salim Zolgharneyn
Born: Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Unknown
Charged With: Unknown
Arrest Date: 2024-07-03
Current Status: Detained
Saman Yasin
Born: Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province
Field of activity: Literary, Cultural, and Artistic Activist
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: Imprisoned in Evin Prison in Tehran
Shaker Baghi
Born: Van, Kurdistan of Turkey
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: 30 years imprisonment in exile
Current Status: Imprisoned in Kashmar Prison in Razavi Khorasan Province
Siamak Hayasi
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Participant in Anti-Government Protests
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: Pending
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
So’ada Khadirzadeh
Born: Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Unknown
Sentence: Four years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Soleyman Adhami
Born: Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Sunni Activist
Charged With: Armed insurrection (baghi)
Sentence: Pending
Current Status: Imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison
Soleyman Salek
Born: Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Forming or leading a group or assembly with the intention of disrupting national security – Membership of a group or assembly with the intention of disrupting national security/ Membership of opposition groups
Sentence: Seven years and six months imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Mahabad Prison
Towhid Darvish
Born: Khoy, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Participant in Anti-Government Protests
Charged With: Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: 10 years imprisonment in exile
Current Status: Imprisoned in Tabriz Central Prison
Wrisha Moradi
Born: Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Armed insurrection (baghi)
Sentence: Pending
Current Status: Imprisoned in Evin Prison in Tehran
Yaghoub Mahmoudi-Azar
Born: Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: Seven years imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Oshnavieh Prison
Yousef Ahmadi
Born: Baneh, Kurdistan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Armed insurrection (baghi)
Sentence: Death penalty
Current Status: Imprisoned in Sanandaj Central Prison
Yousef Rahmani
Born: Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Acting against national security
Sentence: Two years and five months imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Oshnavieh Prison
Zeynab Jalalian
Born: Maku, West Azerbaijan Province
Field of activity: Political Activist
Charged With: Enmity against God (moharebeh)
Sentence: Life imprisonment
Current Status: Imprisoned in Yazd Central Prison