Osman Mostafappour Archives - KHRN

November 23, 2019

Kurdish Political Prisoners Held for Over 25 Years Released from Orumiyeh Central Prison

Two of the longest-serving political prisoners in Iran held at Orumiyeh Central Prison were released after agreeing to a pardon.  The two political prisoners Osman Mostafapour and Mohammad Nazari spent 28 and 25 years at Tabriz, Orumiyeh and Rajaee Shahr prisons respectively. Nazari and Mostafapour were detained in 1991 and 1994 respectively for allegedly being a member of the banned Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI). They were...

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