Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Enforcement of Judgments Office in Iran's northwestern Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan province, has imprisoned three Kurdish civilians to serve their sentences in Naqadeh Prison on 27 February. Kurdish civilians Khezr Ghaderi-Azar, Shafi Mohammadnezhad, and Esmaeil Mohammadpour presented themselves at the Piranshahr courthouse on the same day to serve their five-year prison sentences. In February 2021, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Piranshahr had charged them with "acting...

The new head of Iran's Naqadeh Prison on 26 December ordered the closure of the meeting hall, prohibiting prisoners from receiving family visits. On his second day as prison head, Habib Mohammadi has denied prisoners face-to-face and cabin visits with their families. Mohammadi has also ordered the closure of two rooms that prisoners had built at their own expense for conjugal visits. He has announced that...

Mohammad Ebrahimzadeh and Salam Bazargani, two Kurdish civilians from Piranshahr, have been released on bail from Naqadeh Prison after being detained for four months by the Intelligence Department of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Coprs (IRGC). Mohammad Ebrahimzadeh and Salam Bazargani were arrested by the IRGC in Piranshahr on March 1, 2020, and transferred to the military-security detention centre in Orumiyeh. The two civilians were transferred to...

A Kurdish civilian transferred from the Orumiyeh Intelligence Service to Naqadeh Prison on October 20, 2019, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) Seyed Reza Ahmadi, from the village of Turksh of Piranshahr who was arrested on August 1, was accused of "cooperating with one of the Kurdish opposition parties” by Intelligence officials during the interrogation process.