Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Senior Iranian judiciary officials have threatened to execute the amputation sentences of four prisoners at Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. During a recent visit, Nasser Atbati, the Director General of the Judiciary of West Azerbaijan Province, and Majidi, the Prosecutor of Orumiyeh, met with the prisoners Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Shahivand, Mehdi Sharifian, and Kasra Karami,...

Hadi Rostami, a prisoner sentenced to amputation, began a dry hunger strike after being severely beaten by prison officials and transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 5 February. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that a delegation led by the Chief Justice of West Azerbaijan Province and several judges from Orumiyeh visited the prison to address the prisoners' concerns, and...

Hadi Rostami, a prisoner sentenced to amputation, went on hunger strike on 17 December to protest his transfer on 16 December from Orumiyeh Central Prison to Fashafoyeh Prison, also known as Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Hadi Rostami was summoned to the Orumiyeh Central Prison Guard Office on 14 December and transferred to Fashafoyeh Prison on the...

Hadi Rostami, a prisoner sentenced to amputation has warned that his sentence may soon be carried out, according to a message he released from Orumiyeh Central Prison. Hadi Rostami, who was arrested in 2017 on theft charges and sentenced to amputation of four fingers on his right hand, has been moved to various prisons across Iran six times over the past few years and claims...

Hadi Rostami, a prisoner sentenced to amputation of four fingers of his right hand, was transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 23 May after going on a hunger strike. Rostami went on a hunger strike to protest against the imminent risk of the amputation of his right hand. In recent days, the authorities of Orumiyeh Central Prison summoned Rostami to the prison's Enforcement...

Branch 102 of the Criminal Court in Iran's Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, sentenced prisoner Hadi Rostami to eight months in prison and 45 lashes for "disturbing the prison order" in the past few days, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The case was filed following a complaint by Farhad Hajebi Miandoabi, head of the inspection office at Orumiyeh Central Prison. Similarly, in 2020, Rostami...

Hadi Rostami, a prisoner convicted of the amputation of four fingers of his right hand, was transferred to solitary confinement on 18 January after going on a hunger strike to protest against a prison official's threats to execute his sentence. Saeidzadeh, the head of Ward 2 of Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan province, has been repeatedly summoning the prisoner and threatening him with the...

Nasser Atbati, the Director General of the Justice Department of Iran's West Azerbaijan province, has threatened the prisoner Hadi Rostami, who was sentenced to amputation of four fingers of his right hand, saying that his sentence would be executed if he did not obtain the consent of the plaintiffs. On 6 September, a judicial delegation led by Atbati together with the Public Prosecutor of Orumiyeh...

Hadi Rostami, a prisoner sentenced to amputation of four fingers of his right hand, has been sent back to Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan province from Rajai prison in Karaj, northern Iran. This prisoner was transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison on 12 June after being beaten by the officers of the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary. During the beating, one of his teeth was broken and...