A new lawsuit has been filed against Kurdish political prisoners Nayeb Hajizadeh, Nayeb Askari, and Keyhan Mokarram after the complaint of the head of Orumiyeh Central Prison, Amir Sohrabi. The political prisoners have been accused of “disrupting the prison order”.
They were taken to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Orumiyeh on 12 July and informed of the charges they face, sources said.
On July 27, two prisoners for ordinary crimes attacked and beat the Kurdish political prisoner Nayeb Hajizadeh in the main hall of the Orumiyeh Central Prison. After the intervention of the prison officers, Hajizadeh returned to the ward for political prisoners. After an hour, another fight took place in front of the prison guard office between political prisoners and the two prisoners that had attacked Hajizadeh.
The two prisoners that beat Hajizadeh were named as witnesses in the new lawsuit filed after the complaint of the head of the prison.
Security forces had arrested Nayeb Hajizadeh on 8 October 2019.
In December 2020, Branch 2 of the Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court sentenced him to 10 years and one day in prison on charges of “acting against national security” through “membership in the Komalah”.
Separately, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces arrested Keyhan Mokarram on 8 July 2019 in the village of Anbi in Orumiyeh. After two months in detention, he was released on bail pending trial.
Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh, presided over by Judge Ali Sheikhlou, sentenced the Kurdish civilian to five years in prison on charges of “collaborating with the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK)”.
Later, the Court of Appeals of Orumiyeh upheld the sentence after the political prisoner’s appeal against the ruling.
Moreover, Nayeb Askari, a Kurdish civilian from Orumiyeh, was transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison on 17 June, after being held about three months in the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC.
