Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner denied furlough in Evin Prison

Kurdish political prisoner Ali (Diyar) Bakhshaei, a Kurdish political prisoner from Dargaz in Razavi Khorasan Province, has been denied furlough while serving a five-year sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison. Bakhshaei, a cultural activist and labourer, was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Tehran on 24 January 2019. After his arrest, he was taken to Ward 2A of the IRGC’s...

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