Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A “juvenile offender” has ended his six-day-long hunger strike in the Juvenile Detention Centre of Sanandaj on 24 July. Arman Farahmand, who comes from Marivan, has been on a hunger strike since 19 June. He sewed up his lips to protest against the continued indecision in his court case. Farahmand ended his hunger strike after the “insistence” of the prison authorities and their “promise to meet...

Zeinab Sekaanvand, a prisoner who was arrested and sentenced to death for the murder of her husband when she was just 17 years old, was executed on Tuesday morning (02 October) along with two other prisoners at Orumiyeh Central Prison. This prison sentence was enforced while human rights organisations had repeatedly called for annulment of her death sentence. Zeinab Sekaanvand's brother confirmed the execution of...

During the past few days, Saman Naseem, a Kurdish political prisoner detained at Orumiyeh Central Prison, was transferred to the office of Orumieh Forensic Medicine to be examined with respect to his mental health and maturity. "On Wednesday, Dec 20, 2017, Saman Naseem was transferred from Orumiyeh Central Prison to the office of Orumiyeh Forensic Medicine where a panel of five trusted medical doctors questioned...

Saman Naseem, a Kurdish political prisoner, who was a juvenile when arrested a few years ago, has been notified by the branch 12 of the Orumiyeh Court that the status of his mental health and maturity at the time of his offense will be re-examined and the results will be sent to a court in the next two weeks. A reliable source told the Kurdistan...

The authorities of Sanandaj Central Prison have told Kurdish juvenile offender Hemen Oraminejad that he is now at imminent risk of execution, an activist said. Oraminejad was arrested and sentenced to death under Iran’s 'Qesas law' (an eye for an eye) when he was a teenager. According to an activist who spoke with Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Oraminejad was “called for a meeting a few...