Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Two prisoners sentenced to the death penalty have been taken today to solitary confinement for execution in Orumiyeh Central Prison. Nasser Azmoudeh and a prisoner named Shahriyar, whose last name could not be confirmed, were taken from Ward 4 of the prison to solitary confinement. The two prisoners were sentenced to death on drug-related charges. Prison officials have informed the families of the prisoners that their...

Azerbaijani Turkic Sunni prisoner Davoud Jabbari Maraghoush has gone on a hunger strike in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 30 June. He is protesting against the uncertainty regarding his court case. The prisoner has been taken to solitary confinement along with another religious prisoner, Yasser Sharafaddin, who had started his hunger strike on 29 June, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Security forces had arrested...

Kurdish religious prisoner Yasser Sharafaddin has gone on hunger strike in Orumiyeh Central Prison, protesting against his deprivation of basic rights. Sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the prisoner went on hunger strike on the morning of 29 June as prison authorities refused to send him on temporary leave, transfer him to Naqadeh Prison, consider the double-urgency parliamentary plan to reduce his...

Prisoner Amir Rezaei who lost his consciousness as a result of torture by Orumiyeh prison officers, has died in the prison infirmary last night, on 17 May. A source confirmed the news to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and said: “On Sunday, 16 May, Amir Rezaei was taken to quarantine ward along with several other prisoners due to a fight that took place between...

A Turkish civilian from Salmas named Reza Abbasi has been sent to Orumiyeh Central Prison in the past days to serve 14 months in prison, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Abbasi was arrested by the security forces in Salmas, West Azerbaijan province, in August 2020. After being held for a month in the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence and Orumiyeh...

Woman political prisoner Somayeh Ghoreishi who suffers from a heart condition and is imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison, has been denied the right to medical treatment and medical leave due to the opposition of the prison authorities, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). A source in Orumiyeh told the KHRN that "Last night, Somayeh Ghoreishi has been in a bad condition due to...

A prisoner named Yousef Rashohashtian has been transferred from Ward 15 of Orumiyeh Central Prison to solitary confinement, on 8 April, for the execution of his death sentence, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). This prisoner, who comes from Orumiyeh, had previously been sentenced to death on drug charges. Earlier, on 4 April, Iran executed three other prisoners named Sadegh Mohi, Ahad Nematvand, and...

Iran has carried out the death penalties of three prisoners Sadegh Mohi, Ahad Nematollah, and Mohammad Mahmoudi in Orumiyeh Central Prison in the morning of 4 April, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). On 3 April, prison authorities took the three prisoners, along with two other prisoners named Ebrahim Nasirkhah and Mostafa Nasirkhah, from wards six and three of the prison to solitary...

Six Kurdish activists that were detained in the recent wave of arrests in Iran have been transferred to prisons in Orumiyeh and Mahabad during the past week, after the completion of their interrogation. One of these activists has later been taken from prison to an unknown location to be “further interrogated”, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). On 6 February, Kurdish female civil...