Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Prisoner Ebrahim Nasirikhah has been transferred today from ward 4 of Orumiyeh Central Prison to solitary confinement for the execution of his death sentence. Nasirikhah was sentenced to the death penalty on "drug-related" charges. On 3 April 2021, prison officials took him and several other prisoners to solitary confinement to carry out their death sentences, but his execution was temporarily suspended for unknown reasons.

The family of Houshmand Alipour have stated that the Supreme Court had violated the sentence. According to a statement issued by the campaign to rescue this political prisoner on Tuesday, September 15, Alipour's lawyers were informed of the death sentence of this political prison being overturned by the Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj.  His trial is scheduled to be held again...

The death sentence for two Kurdish political prisoners charged with Moharebeh (waging war against God) was affirmed by the Revolutionary Court after several years of uncertainty. "On Wednesday, Oct 18, 2017, the court hearing of two Kurdish political prisoners (called “Saber Sheikh Abdullah” and “Diako Rasulzadeh”) was held at Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court headed by the judge Chabok who affirmed their death sentence on charges of...

An informed source told Human Rights Network Kurdistan that Kamal Hassan Ramazan, Syrian political prisoner, has been officially notified the definitive implementation of his death sentences in absentia, in the prison, by Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court in Orumyieh on 20 May 2017. According to the source, the statement by Judge M. Dadpour in the Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh noticed to the head of...