Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Iranian authorities have extended detention of several Kurdish activists, five of whom come from the Saqez area, another from Kamyaran and the other activist is a renowned former political prisoner from Orumiyeh prison. The detained activists are being held at security detention centres run by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the cities of Sanandaj and Oroumiyeh....

“Saman Naseem, a Kurdish political prisoner who was a juvenile when he was arrested few years ago , was transferred to the branch 12 of Orumiyeh Court to attend retrial on 27 January 2016. The Judge requested a medical report from the Forensic Medicine Institute to find out whether or not he was aware of his acts at the time of his arrest. Five...

A group of political prisoners from Orumiyeh prison's Ward 12 refused to receive prison food on 26 January in protest over being imprisoned with non-political and criminal inmates, a Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) source said. The source said that the prisoners had demanded relocation of all political prisoners to the ward and all non-political criminal prisoners to be taken elsewhere in the...

The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh has sentenced Kurdish political prisoner Youssef Kakemami to five more years in prions after he tried to communicate with international human rights organizations, a Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) source said. “Kakemami was verbally told of the verdict by Iranian officials of the Orumiyeh Central Prison on 18 January and he was not shown a copy of the...

Two Kurdish political prisoners went on a one-week-long hunger strike in Iran’s Orumiyeh Central Prison to protest against being jailed with dangerous criminal prisoners, a local human rights source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). “Kurdish political prisoner Rahman Rashidzade begun his hunger strike on 14 January two days after Kurdish political prisoner Mostafa Sabzi went on hunger strike on 12 January. The two political...

Kurdish political prisoner Bahman Dalayi Milan was transferred from solitary confinement at the ward 12 (political prisoners’ ward) at Orumiyeh prison and ended his hunger strike on 10 January, a source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). "On 12 October 2015, Bahman Dalayi Milan was transferred from Khoy prison to Orumiyeh central prison. The governor of Orumiyeh prison ordered his transfer to ward 5 known...