Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Mohammad Khezrnezhad, a Kurdish Sunni cleric and political prisoner detained during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom protests in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, has been moved from Orumiyeh Central Prison to Sanandaj Central Prison. Khezrnezhad, who had requested the transfer to be closer to his family in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, informed his relatives of the move in a brief phone call on 3 October. In September, Khezrnezhad...

Kurdish Sunni cleric Mohammad Khezrnezhad, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for his involvement in the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom, has ended a 12-day hunger strike in protest at his treatment by the authorities, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.  Khezrnejad, who was sentenced to death in November 2023 by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, saw...

Iran's Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of Mohammad Khezrnezhad, a Kurdish Sunni cleric arrested during the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government uprising. State news agencies reported that the sentence had been commuted to imprisonment, but the exact length of the sentence remains unknown to Khezrnezhad and his legal team. On 11 June, Nasser Atbati, the head of the West Azerbaijan Province Judiciary, told state media:...

Branch 41 of Iran's Supreme Court, presided over by Judge Razini, upheld the death sentence and 16-year prison term for Kurdish Sunni cleric Mohammad Khezrnezhad in early April, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On 30 December 2023, after 14 months of detention, Branch Three of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, presided over by Judge Reza Najafzadeh, sentenced Khezrnezhad...

Mohammad Khezrnezhad, a 45-year-old Sunni Kurdish cleric, has been sentenced to death and 16 years in prison by Branch Three of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. The charges against him include "spreading corruption on earth" (efsad-e fel arz), "harming the territorial integrity or independence of the country", and "propaganda against the state". A source familiar with the case told the Kurdistan Human...