Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish woman writer and political prisoner Mozhgan Kavousi has been sent on temporary leave on 21 July after contracting the coronavirus. Following the outbreak of covid-19 in the women's ward of Evin Prison in Tehran, Mozhgan Kavousi became infected with the coronavirus. She was sent on a one-week leave four days after her test results were positive, sources told the KHRN. On 13 July, the political...

Three Kurdish political prisoners, Ali Ahmadi Suleiman, Ahmad Tamouei, and Kamal Hassan Ramazan, were transferred back to Orumiyeh Prison after being detained for about a month at the Intelligence Unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on May 03. These three political prisoners are currently being held in the quarantine ward of the prison. "The three political prisoners were suddenly transferred from Orumiyeh Central...

Two weeks after the transfer of Kurdish political prisoners "Ibrahim Issaipour", "Ahmad Tamouei", "Kamal Hassan Ramazan" and "Ali Ahmad Soleiman" who were suddenly transferred from Orumiyeh central prison to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre, there is still no information available on their fate. "After two weeks of making enquiries and referring to the prison, neither the court nor the security agencies of Orumiyeh have...

Following a clash between Kurdish Political prisoners and a number of Ordinary Crimes prisoners in the youth ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison on Monday, January 24, reports indicate that the situation of ward is still alarming and three political prisoners have been beaten up in the quarantine section."On Monday, February 24, there was a clash between Kurdish and Azeri prisoners provoked by Sayyed Fatemi,...

Kurdish political inmates detained in the prisons of Orumiyeh, Khoy, Tabriz, and Kashmar published a statement and warned about "ethnic cleansing" in northern Syria in condemnation of the Turkish military's incursion into the north and east of Syria, known as Rojava. "The Kurds and other ethnic-religious minorities in Rojava, north and east of Syria have formed a democratic system in recent years, based on which they are cohabiting....

Four Kurdish political prisoners in the Orumiyeh Central Prison -Hamid Rahimi, Touraj Ismaili, Kamal Hassan Ramazan and Ahmad Tamouei- were transferred to the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Revolutionary Court without prior notice, on March 2, 2019 with regard to two new charges of "disrupting public order" And “blasphemy". According to the information obtained by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), a new judicial case was...

Two Kurdish political prisoners detained at Orumiyeh Central Prison were exiled to the Central Prison of Kerman after their sentences were finalised. "On the evening of 21 January 2018, two Kurdish political prisoners called Farooq Sharavari and Tahir Khorshidi sentenced to imprisonment with exile by Orumiyeh Military Court (Branch 1) on charges of cooperating with one of the Kurdish parties were exiled to Kerman Prison...

The death sentence for two Kurdish political prisoners charged with Moharebeh (waging war against God) was affirmed by the Revolutionary Court after several years of uncertainty. "On Wednesday, Oct 18, 2017, the court hearing of two Kurdish political prisoners (called “Saber Sheikh Abdullah” and “Diako Rasulzadeh”) was held at Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court headed by the judge Chabok who affirmed their death sentence on charges of...

Five Kurdish political and religious prisoners were beaten up by dozens of Prisoner of Dangerous Crimes and authorities in ward 1 (Psychotherapy Section) of Orumiyeh Central Prison before being transferred to solitary confinement cells. “On Wednesday, October 18, five Kurdish political and religious prisoners- including Kamran Sheikh, Khosrow Besharat, Anwar Khezari, Ramin Roozban and Siamak Ashrafi- detained in ward 1 (Psychotherapy Section) were severely...