Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoners in Orumiyeh Central Prison, West Azerbaijan Province, have been subjected to severe ill-treatment and torture by prison guards, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Shaker Behrouz, who had previously been sentenced to death for “armed insurrection” (baghi) but whose sentence was overturned in 2023, began a hunger strike on 18 April in protest at a new case against him. The...

Iran's supreme court overturned the death sentence for Kurdish political prisoner Shaker Behrouz last week and once again referred the case to the Islamic Revolution Court in Oroumiyeh for re-investigation.  The prisoner was sentenced to death in June 2022 for Baghi (armed rebellion against the state) by the First Branch of the Islamic Revolution Court.  According to information obtained by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) ,...

A Kurdish political prisoner named Shaker Behrouz, who is sentenced to death, was transferred to an undisclosed location on the morning of 29 June from a ward for prisoners of conscience in Orumiyeh prison. In a phone call before his transfer, Behrouz had spoken about the risk of his execution. In a similar case on 20 June, another Kurdish political prisoner named Firouz Musalou was secretly...

Kurdish political prisoners Shaker Behrouz and Nayeb Askari, who had gone on a hunger strike in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 29 March, are still being held in solitary confinement after 14 days. The two political prisoners have been denied contact with family since the start of the hunger strike and are reported to be in poor health condition. On 29 March, Behrouz was summoned to the...

Prison guards in Orumiyeh prison, northwest Iran, have beaten hunger-striking Kurdish political prisoners Shaker Behrouz and Nayeb Askari with batons on 31 March. The prison officers have raided the cells where Behrouz and Askari are held in solitary confinement, taken them to the main quarantine hall, and beaten them in front of the other prisoners with batons. Reportedly, the incident took place after the prisoners set...

Kurdish political prisoners Shaker Behrouz and Nayeb Askari were transferred to solitary confinement on the orders of the authorities of Orumiyeh Central Prison on 30 March. The two political prisoners have been on a hunger strike since 29 March to protest against their transfer from the ward for prisoners of conscience to the quarantine ward and ward 2. In the past few months, following the transfer...

Kurdish political prisoner Shaker Behrouz, who is sentenced to death and is imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison, northwestern Iran, has been summoned to the guards' office under the pretext of having a family visit and was transferred to ward 2 of the prison on 29 March. The political prisoner has gone on a hunger strike to protest against his transfer from the ward for prisoners...

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have threatened witnesses in the court case of the Kurdish political prisoner Shaker Behrouz, as well as his family members. Behrouz was sentenced to death for allegedly "killing a member of the IRGC". Seven witnesses said in their statements during the hearing that took place in Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, that the...

Authorities in Sanandaj Central Prison in Kurdistan province have ordered that Kurdish political prisoner Houshmand Alipour be put in solitary confinement on the eighth day of his hunger on 23 November. Also, Shaker Behrouz, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death, ended his hunger strike on the fourth day with the favourable promise of the prison authorities. Court, intelligence ministry oppose Alipour's leave Alipour has been on...