Iran has sentenced a Kurdish political prisoner named Firouz Musalou to the death penalty in recent weeks over membership in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh, northwestern Iran, charged Musalou with “armed insurrection” (baghi).
Musalou was held in temporary detention for 33 months before the court issued the sentence.
The last hearing of the political prisoner’s case was held in early March and he was informed of the ruling in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 7 March.
Musalou had received a letter of safe conduct from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) after several years of membership in the PKK and presented himself to the IRGC office in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan province, on 11 July 2019.
The IRGC officials had told his family that their son would be released after a few days of interrogation, but he was transferred to the detention facility of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC in Orumiyeh, interrogated and tortured.
On 1 January 2020, after five months and 20 days of interrogation in the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC, he was imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison.
Musalou comes from the Qatur district of Khoy, West Azerbaijan province.
