Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran has released today Kurdish political prisoners Saman Ghazali and Salar Ghazali under judiciary amnesty. The two brothers served nine months in detention and prison. The political prisoners were serving a two-year sentence in Mahabad Prison. On 16 January 2021, Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad sentenced each of the two civil rights activists to 39 months in prison on charges of...

Iran has executed today the death penalty of prisoner Mohammad Taher Soleimani in Mahabad Prison, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The 65-year-old prisoner had been arrested about two years ago on drug charges. A court had then sentenced him to the death penalty. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement yesterday for the execution of his sentence. Soleimani comes from Dizaj village...

The death sentence of Daniel Diwani-Azar from Mahabad, who had previously been sentenced to retaliation (execution) for the murder of Sadegh Barmaki, was carried out in Miandoab Prison on the morning of December 09. The other defendant in this murder charge, 23-year-old Kamal Asghari, was executed in Mahabad Prison earlier on December 07. Daniel Diwani-Azar was arrested in September 2017 along with Kamal Asghari and Daniel...

A prisoners, sentenced to execution on the charge of "premeditated murder",” was hanged at Mahabad prison on December 7, local informed sources told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).Kamal Asghari, 23, from Mahabad was arrested 3 years ago on charges of premeditated murder and sentenced to "retribution"(execution). This prisoner from Mahabad was arrested in September 2017 along with Daniel Diwani, Azar and Daniel Zein al-Abedin on...

Salar Ghazali and Saman Ghazali, civil activists in Mahabad, have been transferred to Mahabad Prison after 75 days of temporary detention. The two brothers were arrested by security forces on September 17 and transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Urmia. During this time, Saman Ghazali has been on a 15-day hunger strike in protest to his continued detention. Saman Ghazali and Salar Ghazali...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Kurdish political prisoner, Ghader Mohammad Zadeh who has been in prison for the past 14 years, was exiled to Yazd Prison from the Mahabad Prison on Apr 7, 2019. This political prisoner was previously exiled from the Orumiyeh Central Prison to the Yazd Central Prison on March 19, 2019 , but Yazd prison authorities had refused to admit him. KHRN...

A civil activist from Mahabad was released from Mahabad Prison in which he had served four years. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Omid Dabaghchi Mokri, a civil activist was released from Mahabad prison on Nov 24, 2018 after serving his four years sentence. He was arrested on Friday, May 8, 2015, along with other protestors in Mahabad in a protest over...

Arsalan Borna, the journalist from Mahabad who was sentenced to one year in prison by the Mahabad Revolutionary Court in May this year, was transferred to Mahabad Prison for endorsement of his sentence. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Arsalan Borna was arrested after being summoned to the Enforcement of Office of Mahabad on Sept 25, 201 before being transferred...

Runak Aghayi, the activist from Mahabad, was transferred to the Mahabad Prison for endorsement of her six-month sentence which was finalised and summoned by the Orumieh Court of Appeals. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Apr 4, 2018, the activist who had been sentenced to six months in prison on charges of propaganda against the system through participation in the support...