Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Houshmand Alipour, who is serving an eight-year sentence in Sanandaj Central Prison, went on a hunger strike on 26 June in protest at being deprived of his conditional release. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Alipour, who has served five years of his eight-year sentence, has had his conditional release denied due to opposition from the security services. The political...

Kurdish political prisoner Houshmand Alipour ended his hunger strike yesterday in Sanandaj Central Prison. He had gone on a hunger strike on 16 November, protesting the refusal of his demand for temporary leave by the Ministry of Intelligence. Reportedly, the political prisoner ended his strike at the request of his family and relatives. On the eighth day of the strike, prison authorities had sent him to solitary...

Authorities in Sanandaj Central Prison in Kurdistan province have ordered that Kurdish political prisoner Houshmand Alipour be put in solitary confinement on the eighth day of his hunger on 23 November. Also, Shaker Behrouz, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death, ended his hunger strike on the fourth day with the favourable promise of the prison authorities. Court, intelligence ministry oppose Alipour's leave Alipour has been on...

Kurdish political prisoner Houshmand Alipour has gone on a hunger strike in Sanandaj prison in Kurdistan province on 16 November, protesting the refusal of his demand for temporary leave by the Ministry of Intelligence. Branch 4 of the Enforcement of Judgements Office in Sanandaj, in a letter last week, informed Alipour that his request for temporary leave had been rejected by the court for unknown...

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...

Kurdish Political Prisoners Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostadghader were sentenced to death and five years of imprisonment respectively on the charge of ‘taking up arms against the state,” their attorney Ali Sakeni told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The trial of the Kurdish political prisoners was held at the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on 23 October and their preliminary verdict was served on them on 29 December. Houshmand Alipour...

The family of Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostadghader (Two members of the Kurdistan Freedom Party who were arrested on Aug 3, 2018 by security forces near Saqqez) visited them on Oct 28 and 29. Security interrogators told the families that they will be transferred to the Saqqez {Prosecutor's Office in two weeks. An informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that “Mohammad Ostadaghader's father...