Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death, Mohyeddin Ebrahimi, has been returned today to Orumiyeh Central Prison, in north-western West Azerbaijan province, after spending a month in the detention centre of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence. During this time, he was interrogated about issues inside the prison and was denied the right to contact and receive visits by his family. On 26 October, security forces transferred five prisoners...

The administration of the Orumiyeh Central Prison has been imposing harsh conditions on the woman prisoners in the past few weeks. Bakhshi, the prison director, and Badaghi, the head of the prison's ward for women, have reduced prison yard time to two hours per day and phone calls to once every four days. Prison officials have cited the absence of woman prisoners in the Quran classes...

There has been an increase since 26 September in the number of prisoners transferred from Orumiyeh Central Prison to a security detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province. On 26 September, security forces transferred prisoners of conscience Mohyeddin Ebrahimi, Mohyeddin Tazehvared, and Davoud Jabbari to a security detention centre. Furthermore, recently, security forces transferred at least two political prisoners, Ebrahim Khalil Sedigh Hamedani and Salar Khalil...

Officials of Orumiyeh Central Prison have limited the yard time and the time for phone calls for prisoners of the women’s ward. The prisoners have refused prison food for two days, protesting against the decision. A source close to the family of one of the prisoners confirmed the news to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). It said: “In the past two weeks, with the order...

Kurdish civilian Reza Ebrahimi has been temporarily released today from Orumiyeh Central Prison on a bail of 500 million Iranian Tomans – nearly 20,000 USD – after four and a half months of detention. On 22 May, security forces arrested Ebrahimi and another civilian named Towfiq Rad in Bukan, West Azerbaijan province. They took the two civilians to the detention centre of the intelligence ministry in...

A Kurdish civilian named Ahad Najar Chirei has been transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison after being interrogated in a security detention centre of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province. On 24 August, the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC arrested the civilian at his hometown, Delour Darband village of Orumiyeh, and took him to the IRGC detention centre at Razhan base...

All 43 political and religious prisoners detained in Ward 10 of Orumiyeh Central Prison have refused today to receive government meals, protesting against the prison classification council's opposition to transfer ill prisoners to a hospital outside the prison. The prisoners said they would continue their strike until authorities met their demands. A source in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)...

Kurdish civilians Reza Ebrahimi and Towfiq Rad have been transferred to the quarantine ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison on 6 July after 45 days of interrogation by the Ministry of Intelligence, sources told the KHRN. Security forces arrested the two civilians on 22 May in Bukan and took them to the detention centre of the intelligence ministry in Orumiyeh. On 28 July, Reza Ebrahimi and Towfiq...

A fight has broken out among prisoners of Ward 3 of Orumiyeh Central Prison during the distribution of food rations (watermelons) on 25 July. A prisoner named Davoud Heydari has lost his life after suffering severe injuries in the fight, sources told the KHRN. The prisoner was taken to a hospital outside the prison and died a few hours later. Security forces had arrested Heydari about...