Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Shaker Behrouz, who is sentenced to death and is imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison, northwestern Iran, has been summoned to the guards' office under the pretext of having a family visit and was transferred to ward 2 of the prison on 29 March. The political prisoner has gone on a hunger strike to protest against his transfer from the ward for prisoners...

Kurdish political prisoner Nayeb Askari fainted after having a seizure today in the new high-security ward of Iran's Orumiyeh prison, but prison officials opposed providing him medical treatment. All prisoners of conscience, who were transferred to the ward, have been denied access to medical services. Askari, who has been suffering from kidney disease for the past few months, had a seizure caused by a hunger strike...

Kurdish political prisoner Nayeb Askari was transferred from Orumiyeh Central Prison to the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on 11 October. Askari, who comes from Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, has been in detention since April. The prisoner suffers from kidney stones. According to his doctor, he should be operated on as soon as possible. On 26 August, he went...

Officials in Orumiyeh Central Prison have transferred Kurdish political prisoner Nayeb Askari to a hospital outside the prison on the third day of his hunger strike on 28 August. They returned him to prison after he underwent an MRI scan. Askari has temporarily ended his hunger strike after returning to prison. On 26 August, he went on a hunger strike as a court order had not...

Kurdish political prisoner Nayeb Askari has gone on a hunger strike today as a court order has not been issued to transfer him to a hospital outside prison for a sonogram. The political prisoner has been suffering from a bleeding kidney for the past few days and is in poor physical condition, sources say. He has been transferred to the prison infirmary several times, and the...

Kurdish political prisoners Keyhan Mokarram, Nayeb Hajizadeh, and Nayeb Askari have been sentenced to 50 lashes and three months in prison after the head of Orumiyeh Central Prison filed a complaint, accusing the prisoners of “disrupting the prison order”. The lawsuit was filed after a general crimes prisoner beat a Kurdish political prisoner. The court session of the three political prisoners was held on 12 July,...

A new lawsuit has been filed against Kurdish political prisoners Nayeb Hajizadeh, Nayeb Askari, and Keyhan Mokarram after the complaint of the head of Orumiyeh Central Prison, Amir Sohrabi. The political prisoners have been accused of “disrupting the prison order”. They were taken to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Orumiyeh on 12 July and informed of the charges they face, sources said. On July 27, two...