Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Authorities in Orumiyeh prison have secretly executed a Kurdish political prisoner named Firouz Musalou on 20 June without informing his lawyer and family. The political prisoner was transferred from solitary confinement to an unknown location on 19 June to serve his sentence. Fars News Agency also published a report on the evening of 20 June quoting the public relations of the judiciary of West Azerbaijan province,...

Iran has sentenced a Kurdish political prisoner named Firouz Musalou to the death penalty in recent weeks over membership in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh, northwestern Iran, charged Musalou with "armed insurrection" (baghi). Musalou was held in temporary detention for 33 months before the court issued the sentence. The last hearing of the political prisoner's case was held...