Yazdan Ghanbari, a Kurdish Yarsani civilian, has been transferred to Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, after two months of detention and torture at the Nabi Akram detention facility of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Meanwhile, Ghanbari’s brother, Mansour Ghanbari, and another relative, Jamshid Haghani, remain in custody at the IRGC intelligence detention facility in Kermanshah.
Yazdan Ghanbari was arrested on 19 October at his family home in the Karnachi neighbourhood of Kermanshah, while his brother and relative, who live in the village of Marzalan in Salas-e Babajani, Kermanshah Province, were arrested by IRGC intelligence agents at a local checkpoint in late November and are being held incommunicado without access to family or legal counsel.
During his two-month detention, he was subjected to severe physical and psychological torture in order to extract confessions to charges including involvement in the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government protests and collaboration with a Kurdish opposition party.
Sources close to his family have confirmed that the torture has left visible marks on his body.
Despite the evidence of ill-treatment, the Kermanshah Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office has charged Ghanbari with “inciting and provoking people to war and murder with the intent to disrupt national security and commit murder”. The case has now been referred to the Islamic Revolutionary Court.
