Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Five Kurdish civilians Salah Aji, Ali Joulapas, Shoresh Abdullahnejad, Najmeh Sakhnour and Farman Heydarnejad, who were detained last month by security forces in the cities of Piranshahr in West Azerbaijan Province and Sarvabad in Kurdistan Province, were released on bail in recent days. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained the information that, on Thursday, December 03, 4 civilians from the villages of "Shineabad"...

Ali Baderkhani, the detained Kurdish author who is spending the last months of his three-year sentence under harsh conditions at the Orumiyeh Central Prison, is still deprived of medical care, furlough, and conditional release. A source close to this Kurdish author has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the health condition of this prisoner was critical.“Ali Baderkhani has been suffering from kidney disease for...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Hamid Rahimi, a Kurdish political prisoner detained at Orumiyeh Central Prison, was released from prison after serving his prison term. This political prisoner was deprived of the right to leave and conditional furlough during his 13-month prison term. Moreover, he was beaten by several prison officials following several days of political protest and strike in October. This citizen of Orumieh was...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The political prisoner “Javad Ahmadi”, who was hospitalized in Hospital on June 7, 2019 due to kidney disease, was transferred to the Orumiyeh Central Prison although his treatment had not been completed. KHRN has been informed that this political prisoner, who had undergone surgery on Friday June 7 due to kidney disorder, was taken back to the Labour Ward of...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The political prisoner "Esmat (Mohammad) Salahshour" has been deprived of the right to visit and contact with the family after being transferred from Orumiyeh Central Prison to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Orumiyeh. This political prisoner, who has been serving his sentence at Orumiyeh Central Prison during the past two years, was transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Mozaffar Sekaanvand Lakran, a Kurdish civilian from Maku who was arrested in 2012 and sentenced to 20 years in exile in Borazjan/Bushehr Province, has been illegally imprisoned since his transfer to exile. Mozaffar Sekaanvand was arrested by Security Forces in Shoot district of Maku, on September 24, 2012, and subsequently transferred to Maku prison after a month of interrogation at...

Ali Mami, a Kurdish political prisoner detained at the Orumiyeh Central Prison who was sentenced to one year in prison on charges of propaganda against the state, was released on October 09 after serving his one year imprisonment sentence. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that, this political prisoner was arrested along with three other citizens called Bashir Pir Mawana, Ahmad and...

Mohieddin Ebrahimi, a political prisoner detained at Orumiyeh Central Prison, was sentenced to death by Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh on charges of membership in a Kurdish opposition party. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Mohieddin Ebrahimi (the political prisoner from Shno) was wounded and arrested on Nov 3, 2017 at one of the villages of Shnoby Islamic Republic Guards...

The ruling of two citizens from Saqqez and a detained citizen of Kamyaran were reduced by the court of appeals. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the Court of Appeals (branch 4) has reduced the sentence of eighteen million Rials of fine and fifty lashes issued by the Criminal Court of Saqqez in regards to two citizens called “Zamaneh Zivia" and...