Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death, Mohyeddin Ebrahimi, has been returned today to Orumiyeh Central Prison, in north-western West Azerbaijan province, after spending a month in the detention centre of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence.
During this time, he was interrogated about issues inside the prison and was denied the right to contact and receive visits by his family.
On 26 October, security forces transferred five prisoners of conscience, Mohyeddin Ebrahimi, Mohyeddin Tazehvared, Davoud Jabbari, Ebrahim Khalil Sedigh Hamedani, Salar Khalil Sedigh Hamedani, and three non-political prisoners named Farzin Ghaderi, Amir Mohammadi, and Kamal Khakzad, to detention centres of the intelligence ministry and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh.
Mohyeddin Tazehvared, Farzin Ghaderi, Amir Mohammadi, and Kamal Khakzad have already been returned to prison.
Background
Forces of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC wounded Ebrahimi in a village of Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan province, on 3 November 2017 and arrested him.
They took him to the detention centre of the security institution in Orumiyeh and severely interrogated and tortured him on the accusation of “membership in a Kurdish opposition party”.
On 20 August 2018, Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh – presided over by Judge Ali Sheikhlou — tried him while denying him the right to have a lawyer.
After the political prisoner appealed against the ruling, the case was referred to Branch 19 of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court overruled the decision due to “lack of investigation” and referred it again to Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh.
In January 2020, once again, the court sentenced Ebrahimi to death.
Ebrahimi, 40, is married and comes from Oshnavieh.
