Reza Rasaei Archives - KHRN

October 7, 2024

Kurdish Yarsani civilian released on bail after 12 days in detention

Amirhossein Haghjouyan, the cousin of the executed Kurdish Yarsan civilian Reza Rasaei, was released on bail from Kermanshah Central Prison on 5 October after spending 12 days in detention. Haghjouyan, who faces charges of “insulting religious sanctities”, was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Sahneh, Kermanshah Province, on 23 September.  The civilian was transferred from an IRGC intelligence detention...

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September 23, 2024

IRGC intelligence arrests cousin of executed Kurdish Yarsani civilian

The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) today arrested Amirhossein Haghjouyan, the cousin of the executed Kurdish Yarsan civilian Reza Rasaei, in Sahneh, Kermanshah Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that armed IRGC intelligence agents raided Haghjouyan's family plant nursery on the outskirts of Sahneh at 07:30 local time and took him to an undisclosed location. There is no information...

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August 6, 2024

Kurdish political prisoner Reza Rasaei secretly executed in Kermanshah

Reza Rasaei, a 35-year-old Kurdish Yarsani civilian who was arrested during the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government uprising, was executed at dawn today in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the political prisoner's family and lawyer were not informed in advance, nor was he granted a final meeting with his family. Rasaei was summoned to the guard...

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January 23, 2024

Supreme Court rejects retrial for Kurdish prisoner facing execution

The First Branch of Iran's Supreme Court has rejected the request for a retrial submitted by the legal team of Reza Rasaei, a Yarsani Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death and is currently being held in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. The Supreme Court, overlooking the existing discrepancies and uncertainties in the case, considered the request for a retrial to be "without legal...

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January 16, 2024

Imminent execution threat for nine Kurdish prisoners of conscience in Iran

Some nine Kurdish political and religious prisoners are currently facing imminent execution in prisons in Karaj, Alborz Province, and Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, as well as in an undisclosed detention centre. The identities of these individuals are Kamran Sheikheh, Khosrow Besharat, Farhad Salimi, Anvar Khezri, Pezhman Fatehi, Vafa Azarbar, Mohsen Mazloum, Mohammad Faramarzi, and Reza Rasaei. These prisoners were sentenced to death during unfair trials on charges...

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January 3, 2024

Iran issues execution order for Kurdish political prisoner Reza Rasaei

The execution order for Reza Rasaei, a Kurdish political prisoner arrested during the anti-government uprising of Women Life Freedom, was sent to the Enforcement of Judgements Office of the Criminal Court of Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, on 31 December, for implementation. On 7 October 2023, Branch Two of the Criminal Court in Kermanshah, presided over by Judge Mohammad Rasoul Haghnejati and consultant Amin Mohammadi, sentenced Rasaei,...

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December 4, 2023

Supreme Court to review Yarsani political prisoner’s death sentence

Lawyers representing Reza Rasaei, a political prisoner sentenced to death, have successfully raised objections leading to the referral of his case to the Supreme Court, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Rasaei, a Yarsani Kurdish civilian, was sentenced to death for "complicity in the murder" of Nader Beyrami, the head of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Sahneh,...

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November 3, 2023

Prominent activist condemns unjust death sentence for Yarsani civilian

Prominent Yarsani activist and former political prisoner Kheyrollah Haghjouyan has released a video strongly criticising the fabrication of false charges and the imposition of a death sentence on Yarsani Kurdish civilian Reza Rasaei, describing the judicial process as unjust. Rasaei was sentenced to death for "complicity in the murder" of Nader Beyrami, the head of the IRGC's intelligence service in Sahneh, Kermanshah Province. Haqhjuoyan, who is...

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