Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A Kurdish political prisoner has been released on bail today, on 1 February, sources have told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).Hamid Abdi, a Kurdish civilian from the village of Nanas in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, was released from Orumiyeh Central Prison after paying 800 million Iranian Tomans(near 19,200 USD) of bail .In July 2020, the third branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of...

Three Kurdish civilians, Safar Nouri, Farhad Nouri and Shahram Kazemian, were sent to Orumiyeh Prison to serve their sentences. On Thursday, January 07, a Kurdish civil activist 'Shahram Kazemian' was arrested by security forces in the city of Orumiyeh and taken to prison to serve his three years sentence. Kazemian was arrested by security forces of Orumiyeh Ion December 7, 2019, and was transferred to...

Siavash Javan, a civilian of Orumieh, was released from Orumiyeh Central Prison on bail of 500 million Tomans, an informed source told the Kurdistan human rights network (KHRN). He was arrested by security forces on October 31, along with two other civilians, Farshad Fattahi and Behzad Talaei, on charges of "membership in Salafi groups." Javan was transferred to Orumieh Central Prison after 17 days of...

Aziz Nasiri, a civilian of Orumiyeh, was released from Orumiyeh Central Prison on bail of 500 million Tomans after 4 months of detention. He was arrested in Orumiyeh on September 4, and transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison after being interrogated for 26 days at the detention centre of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Nasiri has been charged with collaboration with the Komala Party.

Fourteen political and religious prisoners detained in the political ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison have ended their hunger strike after meeting with two judges of Orumiyeh Judiciary. These prisoners had gone on a hunger strike in protest to the non-implementation of a double urgency plan to reduce their imprisonment sentence. On December 09, 14 political prisoners named Aran Tibash, Dara Rashidi, Hossein Osmani, Salar and...

Kurdish political prisoner Aynaz Zare was released from Orumiyeh Central Prison after spending 15 months in prison. On November 16, she was sentenced to five years in prison by the Branch 1 of the Orumiyeh Criminal Court for Children and Adolescents on charges of "acting against national security" through membership in the Kurdistan Freedom Party (Pak). However, the  Orumiyeh Court of Appeals reduced this...

On November 19, the Special Guards of Orumiyeh Central Prison entered the political prisoner's ward and, after inspecting and confiscating a large number of the prisoners' personal belongings, transferred all 51 political and religious prisoners to a new security ward called Dormitory 10 (Hedayat). This new ward has 5 rooms with 6 three-storey bund beds in each room. The new ward is equipped with 15...

Mehdi Sanefarshi, a civil rights activist from Tabriz who was detained by security forces in late August after entering Iran from Turkey, was charged with "membership in opposition groups abroad" and "propaganda against the state" And sentenced to a total of five and a half years in prison, a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The trial of this civil activist...

Four prisoners were executed on murder charges at Orumiyeh Central Prison on Thursday October 29,2020. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that Yasser Cheshmeh Anvar, Ali Malekzadeh and Zinolabedin Hosseinzadeh were sentenced to death in public about six years ago for the murder of five people at Orumiyeh, but the death sentence was carried out in Orumiyeh Central Prison due to the outbreak...