Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Omar Faghihpour has been released from Orumiyeh Central Prison after serving more than 20 years of imprisonment. Faghihpour has been released in the 21st year of his imprisonment, after the announcement of amnesty and release of a number of Kurdish political prisoners, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The political prisoner spent his imprisonment in Mahabad, Rajai Shahr, and Orumiyeh prisons,...

On Wednesday, 15 of November, Mohammad Nazari and two other political prisoners known as Omar Faghihpour and Khalid Fereydouni were transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison from the Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj. “These three political prisoners were transferred to the Orumiyeh Central Prison for unknown reasons from the security ward 10 of Rajaishahr prison in Karaj,” an informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network...