Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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...