Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Shaker Behrouz was sentenced to death by Branch 2 of the Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court on charges of "taking up arms against the state”(baqi) through membership in the Komala Party. A source familiar with the political prisoner's case has told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that "the trial of Shaker Behrouz was held a few weeks ago at Branch 2 of the Revolutionary...

Mohieddin Ebrahimi, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death for the second time. The verdict was served on him in Orumiyeh Central Prison yesterday. His trial was held four months ago at Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh, presided by Judge Ali Sheikhlo. The ruling was initially issued in August last year when the political prisoner was sentenced to death at the...

A female prisoner detained at Khoy Prison was sentenced to death by the Criminal Court (Branch1) of Khoy on charges of adultery (sex outside marriage). Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Golestan Jankanloo (married with two children from one of the villages of Maku), who was arrested and charged with adultery (sex outside marriage) in 2017 has been sentenced to death by...

A female prisoner detained in Khoy Prison, who was arrested on November 2016, was accused of adultery (sex outside marriage) after being sued by her husband and has been sentenced to death by the Criminal Court (Branch 1). This prisoner has been identified as Zahra Derakhshani, born in 1982, married and a resident of Khoy. She was arrested with another citizen from Khoy on November...