Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Ministry of Intelligence has summoned some of the families of political prisoners in Orumiyeh Central Prison and interrogated them following the pressure on the prisoners. Also, in the last few days, the prosecutor of Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, visited the ward of political prisoners and called them "separatists and terrorists" and threatened them with exile to prisons in other cities. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network...

Orumiyeh Central Prison officers have insulted and beaten Kurdish political prisoner Kamran Ghasemi on 26 June during his family visit. Ghasemi has been serving a sentence of 10 year and one day in Orumiyeh. A source that spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said that prison officers insulted and disrespected Ghasemi's family during their visit, which led to a reaction by the political prisoner....

Three Kurdish political prisoners 'Keyvan Rashuzadeh, Kamran Ghasemi, and Omid Saeedi' have gone on a hunger strike in protest to the uncertainty of their situation, pressure from the Intelligence Office, and failure of authorities to comply with the principle of Segregation of Crimes in the youth ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison. An informed source in Orumiyeh told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that "these...