Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
Despite the widespread outbreak of the coronavirus in the women’s ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison and the transfer of several prisoners with the virus symptoms to the hospital, a mass mourning ceremony is being held in this prison daily by order of prison officials.
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Child offender Arsalan Yassini who was arrested at the age of 17 on the charge of “premeditated murder” and sentenced to “retribution”(execution), was executed at the Orumiyeh Central Prison on August 17.
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Kurdish Border Porter Tortured by Iranian Border Guards at Nawsoud
On Tuesday, August 11, the Iranian border guards in Nawsoud, Kermanshah province, tortured a middle-aged Kurdish Border Porter –known as Kolbar- Reza Abdollahi during his temporary detention, a local source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
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Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Kurdish Woman women’s rights activist Hajar Saeedi was officially served with the notice of a five-year suspended sentence issued by the Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj, headed by Judge Saeedi.
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Kurdish Kolbar Killed by Iranian Border Guards. “On Thursday, August 13, Iranian border guards at Hangejal area of Baneh County, Kurdistan Province, opened fire on a group of Kurdish Border Porters –known as Kolbar-, killing a young Kolbar Hadi Khedri”, a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
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35 days after Kurdish environmental rights activists Afshin Sheikholeslami Vatani‘s arrest, he has not been officially charged by the Iranian judiciary. The second branch of the Sanandaj’s prosecutor office has extended Mr. Sheikholeslami’s detention.
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Iranian authorities sentenced Zara Mohammadi to a 10-year prison sentence.
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Two Kurdish political prisoners Saber Sheikh Abdullah and Diako Rasoulzadeh were hanged at early morning on July 14 in the prison yard of Orumiyeh Central Prison, A reliable source in Orumiyeh told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
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