Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Kamal Sharifi is now in his 16th year of a 30-year sentence in Minab Prison in Hormozgan Province. Despite battling various health problems acquired during his imprisonment, Sharifi has been consistently denied temporary leave and conditional release. Throughout his lengthy imprisonment, Sharifi has only been allowed one family visit. His health has been a major concern, and he has suffered two major health crises...

Kurdish political prisoner Kamal Sharifi, who had previously suffered a heart attack, has been taken to the Payambar Azam Medical and Research Complex in southern Bandar Abbas on 7 March. After undergoing angioplasty, he has been returned to prison before the completion of his treatment. Sharifi, who has been serving the 13th year of his 30-year prison sentence in internal exile in Minab Prison of...

Kurdish political prisoner Kamal Sharifi, who has been serving the 13th year of his 30-year prison sentence in internal exile in Minab Prison of Hormozgan province, has suffered a heart attack last week and hospitalised for four days. He has been returned to prison before the completion of his treatment, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). A relative of the political prisoner confirmed...