Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Four prisoners with sentences of one-two years in prison in Ward 1-2 Orumiyeh Prison were severely tortured by prison guards. They were transferred to solitary confinement a few days ago due to a conflict in the prison and committed suicide. Confirming the news, an informed source in Orumiyeh told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network that "Tohid Ghaznavi, Babak Sufi, Hojjat Delaram, Milad (unknown family) were transferred...

 Following the protests of political and Sunni prisoners against the continuous water and electricity cuts and the blockage of the toilet's sewer, the prison's special guard forces attacked the protesting prisoners and destroyed their belongings yesterday afternoon, reliable sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). In protest to this attack, all the 43 protesting prisoners in the political and Sunni’ ward 4 went on...

Despite the widespread outbreak of the coronavirus in the women's ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison and the transfer of several prisoners with the virus symptoms to the hospital, a mass mourning ceremony is being held in this prison daily by order of prison officials. "By the order of the officials of Orumiyeh Central Prison, mourning ceremonies are being held every day in the prison yard...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that four women prisoners -Mohabbat Mahmoudi, Fatemeh Mirabi, Simin Seidi, and Donya Piri- who have been infected with the Coronavirus in recent days, are still being held in one of the Women's Ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison without medical attention. KHRN announced news of the second wave of Coronavirus in the Women's Ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison...

Kurdish civilian Shahnaz Sadeghifar has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Branch 2 of Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Sheikhlou on July 21, 2020. She returned to Iran with her daughter Ainaz Zare Mehr from Kurdistan last year after receiving an "immunity letter" from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). However, she was charged with "acting against national security" through membership in the Kurdistan...

The death sentence of two prisoners Ali Abdi and Amir Hossein Ghahriani, who were accused of "premeditated murder",  was carried out at Orumiyeh Central Prison, yesterday. The two prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement yesterday from Wards 1-2 and the Youth Ward respectively in lieu of their death sentence being enforced.

26 officers and employees of the West Azerbaijan Prisons Organization had contracted Qovid-19 disease, an informed source in Orumiyeh, who did not want to be named for security reasons, has told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).  According to this source, following the increase in the number of prison inmates in this province, all employees and officers of Orumiyeh Central Prison have been wearing masks since...

Three prisoners suspected of suffering from coronavirus have been transferred to Taleghani hospital, informed sources told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The source identified the prisoners as Majid Chenarandeh, Hossein Sarvari and Fardin Sayad Mavaneh. According to this source, the prisoners were first transferred to the prison's medical centre and then to the Taleghani Hospital in Orumiyeh on Saturday, May 30, 2020, due to severe shortness...

Two weeks after the transfer of Kurdish political prisoners "Ibrahim Issaipour", "Ahmad Tamouei", "Kamal Hassan Ramazan" and "Ali Ahmad Soleiman" who were suddenly transferred from Orumiyeh central prison to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre, there is still no information available on their fate. "After two weeks of making enquiries and referring to the prison, neither the court nor the security agencies of Orumiyeh have...