Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Hemen Mostafaei, a Kurdish prisoner on death row, has been transferred to solitary confinement in Sanandaj Central Prison to serve his sentence. Hemen Mostafaei, born in 1989 and a resident of "Kani Dinar" in Marivan, was arrested on March 1, 2013, for the murder of a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) named Ebrahim Mohammadi in Marivan and transferred to the Ministry...

The authorities of Sanandaj Central Prison temporarily halted the execution of a Kurdish death row prisoner on 23 May after his family members and human rights activists held a protest outside the prison. The Kurdish death row prisoner, Hemen Mostafaei, 27, was taken to the prison’s solitary confinement cells in preparation for his execution, but the prison authorities agreed to the demand of his family...