Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini has been released from Naqadeh Prison, northwestern Iran, on a heavy bail of 2 billion Tomans – nearly 80,000 USD – on 17 March. Hosseini was arrested in January 2018 and released after more than four years of imprisonment. In February 2022, Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad, in West Azerbaijan province, sentenced Hosseini to live eight...

An Iranian court has sentenced Kurdish political prisoner Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini to living eight years in internal exile in the Heris district of the northwestern province of East Azerbaijan after his release. Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad, in West Azerbaijan province, charged him with "enmity against God" (moharebeh) through membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI). The same court had...

Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad has sentenced Kurdish political prisoner Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini to 40 years in prison and internal exile to Orumiyeh Central Prison on charges of “enmity against God” through membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI). Sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that Hosseini was officially summoned to the Enforcement of Judgements Office of...

Two Kurdish detainees Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini and Mohammad Moradi have been tried in the past days on charges of "armed insurrection" (baghi), in Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad, presided over by Judge Javad Gholami. Conviction to “enmity against God” can lead to the death penalty according to the Iranian Islamic Penal Code. Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, a resident of Naqadeh, West Azerbaijan province,...