Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish prisoners Aram Omari Berdiani, Rahman Parhazou, and Vafa Hanareh, convicted of "involvement in intelligence cooperation and espionage for Israel", were severely tortured by prison officials in Orumiyeh Central Prison just hours before their execution, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The three Kurdish men and Nasim Namazi, an Azerbaijani-Turkic woman, were executed in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 28 December 2023 on charges...

The bodies of prisoners Nasim Namazi, an Azerbaijani-Turkic woman from Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, and three Kurdish men, Vafa Hanareh, Aram Omari Berdiani, and Rahman Parhazou, have still not been returned to their families a week after they were executed in Orumiyeh Central Prison. These individuals, convicted of "involvement in intelligence cooperation and espionage for Israel", were transferred to solitary confinement on 27 December and...

Kurdish political prisoners Aram Omari, Rahman Parhazou, Amir Moshtagh Gangachin, Fakhroddin Doudkanlou Milan, and Ashkan Osmannezhad have been on hunger strike at Orumiyeh Central Prison since 14 March, protesting against their "unjust" death and prison sentences. In February, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh sentenced Omari and Parhazou to death, and Gangachin, Doudkanlou Milan and Osmannezhad to 10 years in prison. The court charged these prisoners...

Kurdish prisoners Aram Omari, Rahman Parhazou, Amir Moshtagh Gangachin, Fakhroddin Doudkanlou Milan, and Ashkan Osmannezhad went on a hunger strike in Orumiyeh, north-western Iran, protesting against their "unfair" sentences. After they announced the hunger strike, the prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement on the orders of prison authorities. In February, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh sentenced Omari and Parhazou to death, and Gangachin, Doudkanlou Milan...