Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Keyvan Rashozadeh was transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province yesterday for protesting against the conditions in the political prisoners' ward. Rashozadeh went on hunger strike the same day in response to his placement in solitary confinement. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that during a visit by prison officials on 5 September, a group of...

Kurdish political prisoner Motalleb Ahmadian, who suffers from a diaphragmatic hernia and duodenal problems, remains in a critical physical condition as he continues to be denied access to specialised medical care in medical facilities outside Tehran's Evin prison. Despite warnings from doctors about his deteriorating health, the Tehran prosecutor has so far refused to authorise his hospitalisation. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that...

Zeynab Jalalian, Iran's only woman political prisoner serving a life sentence, has been threatened and coerced into making forced confessions and expressing remorse by interrogators from the Ministry of Intelligence. Over the past few months, a team of interrogators from the Ministry of Intelligence has met with Jalalian several times in Yazd Central Prison, telling her that her freedom or access to medical care depends...

Kurdish political prisoner Omid Saeidi has entered his ninth day of a hunger strike in Khoy Prison, in north-west Iran, and his physical condition is reported to be poor. Saeidi began his hunger strike on 4 July in protest at the opposition of the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, to his furlough request, and sewed his lips together as a symbol of...

Kurdish political prisoner Omid Saeidi, who started a hunger strike on 4 July by sewing his lips in protest against the opposition of the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, to his temporary leave, was threatened with transfer to another city. The threats of exile came during a meeting on the third day of Saeidi's hunger strike when he met Khoy Posecutor Yaghoub...

Omid Saeidi, a Kurdish political prisoner serving a ten-year sentence in Khoy Prison, has gone on a hunger strike in protest at the Ministry of Intelligence's opposition to granting him temporary leave. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that today the political prisoner delivered a letter announcing his hunger strike to prison authorities. In the letter, Saeidi wrote that he was transferred to Khoy...

Kurdish political prisoner Nayeb Askari, who is on death row, was transferred from the political ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison to ward 3 of the prison on the orders of the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that prison officials visited the political ward of the prison today and told Askari that he was not allowed to stay...

Kurdish political prisoner Houshmand Alipour, who is serving an eight-year sentence in Sanandaj Central Prison, went on a hunger strike on 26 June in protest at being deprived of his conditional release. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Alipour, who has served five years of his eight-year sentence, has had his conditional release denied due to opposition from the security services. The political...

Hatem Ozdemir, a Kurdish political prisoner whose death sentence was overturned by the Iranian Supreme Court in March, was transferred from Orumiyeh Central Prison to an undisclosed location on 23 June, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The political prisoner was reportedly handed over to security forces after being summoned to the prison's security office. Ozdemir has been suffering from kidney stones since his...