Kurdish political prisoner Mohammad (Esmat) Salahshour has been released today, 24 February, after serving three years in prison, sourced told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
Salahshour was released four months before the end of his sentence with the consent of the Prison Classification Council.
During his imprisonment, he was sent on a several days of temporary leave only once, in January of this year.
Salahshour had been arrested by security forces in the village of Falkan of Mirgavar area in Orumiyeh, on 1 March 2018. He was taken to Orumiyeh Central Prison after a month of interrogation in the detention centre of the intelligence office in Orumiyeh.
Few months later, Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiye sentenced Salahshour to a total of seven years in prison on charges of “membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI)” and “propaganda against the state”. This sentence was reduced to three years and four months according to the Law on Consolidation of Sentences article and after the announcement of the bill to reduce imprisonment penalties.
