Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Farhad Pezhwan, a Kurdish prisoner serving a life sentence at Orumiyeh Central Prison, has been transferred to solitary confinement after being severely beaten by the prison’s internal

Kurdish political prisoner Keyvan Rashozadeh continues to be denied medical treatment for injuries sustained as a result of torture by prison authorities, as he enters the seventh day of his hunger

Kurdish political prisoner Abdolaziz Gol-Mohammadi attempted suicide in Orumiyeh Central Prison today in protest at the authorities' refusal to grant him temporary leave, the Kurdistan Human Rights

Kurdish political prisoners in Orumiyeh Central Prison, West Azerbaijan Province, have been subjected to severe ill-treatment and torture by prison guards, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)

Prison guards and security officers raided the political and religious prisoners’ ward in Orumiyeh Central Prison today, destroying prisoners’ belongings and beating Kurdish political prisoners

Kurdish prisoners of conscience Arash Gholizadeh and Ardavan Tahourian, who have separately gone on hunger strike in Orumiyeh Central Prison, in West Azerbaijan Province, are demanding access to

Hassan Omarpour, a Kurdish prisoner serving a 10-year sentence in Orumiyeh Central Prison, began a hunger strike on 14 April to demand a retrial and to protest insults against his family by the

The authorities in Orumiyeh Central Prison have recently increased pressure and torture on prisoners after more than 800 prisoners signed an open letter calling for the removal of Peyman Khanzadeh,

Prison guards raided the political and religious prisoners' ward in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 28 February, destroying prisoners' belongings and beating some of them. The raid comes after Kurdish