Hassan Rastegari Majd Archives - KHRN

June 5, 2017

51-year-old Kurdish prisoner given 20 lashes in Iran’s Orumiyeh Prison

Kurdish political prisoner Hassan Rastegari Majd was flogged with 20 lashes on charges of disrupting a prison order in Orumiyeh Prison, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Branch 104 of the second Criminal Court of Orumiyeh sentenced Majd to three months in prison and 20 lashes on charges of disturbing public order. After the prison sentence was finalised for him, the flogging sentence...

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