Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Kamran Jafari, a Kurdish political prisoner detained at the Orumiyeh Central Prison, was released after serving his three years imprisonment sentence. The political prisoner was arrested in the city of Orumiyeh in November 2016 but he was released on bail after a month. He was later sentenced to five years in prison on charges of being a member of a...

A Kurdish political prisoner detained in the youth ward of the Orumiyeh Central Prison was interrogated and threatened by the Special Office of the Intelligence Ministry in Prison. “On Dec 18, 2017, the Special Office of the Intelligence Ministry based in Orumiyeh Central Prison summoned Kamran Jafari, a political prisoner in the youth ward. Due to his refusal to go to the intelligence office, the...

Over the past few days, a Kurdish political prisoner jailed in Orumiyeh beaten severely and injured by two guards during a visit to the prison clinic. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) Saturday 16 May, Kamran Jafari’s name from Ward 13 of Orumiyeh prison, with several other prisoners were written on the list to go to the prison infirmary due to their illness. But during the...