Kurdish political prisoner Mostafa Sabzi, who serves the seventh year of his 10-year prison sentence, has been sent on temporary leave for the first time since his imprisonment in 2014.
Also, two Kurdish civilians named Amir Abdollahi and Salahaddin Aflideh, who were detained in November 2020 and February 2021 respectively, have been released on bail.
Mostafa Sabzi, who comes from Maku, was arrested by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in June 2014 in a village of Orumiyeh and interrogated for two months in a security detention centre in in the city. A few months later, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison by Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh on charges of “membership in the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK)”. This sentence was then upheld in the Court of Appeals of Orumiyeh and reduced to 10 years.
Amir Abdollahi, a resident of Saqqez, was arrested by the IRGC forces in Bukan on 1 November 2020 and transferred to the detention centre of this security institution in Orumiyeh. After his interrogation ended, the political prisoner was transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison on 30 January 2021.
Salahuddin Aflideh, from Mahabad, was arrested on 13 February 2021 by the agents of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC. After a month of interrogation in the detention centre of this security institution in Orumiyeh, he was transferred to the central prison of the city.
