Three Kurds from Piranshahr imprisoned to serve their sentences

Hengaw – Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Iranian authorities have detained three Kurdish men from Piranshahr, identified as Shwane Khezrnezhad, Ahad Khezrnezhad, and Omid Khezrnezhad, to enforce their prison sentences and transferred them to Naghadeh Central Prison.

Based on information obtained by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the three men, residents of Gerdeben village in Piranshahr, were taken into custody on Monday, November 10, 2025, and moved to Naghadeh Central Prison to serve three-year sentences.

They had previously been sentenced by Branch One of the Mahabad Revolutionary Court to three years in prison each on charges of “collaboration with the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan.”

All three were released from Naghadeh Prison on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, after more than four months in detention, each posting bail of two billion tomans.

Shwane and Ahad Khezrnezhad were initially detained on Monday, January 22, 2024, by security forces in Piranshahr, who used violence during the arrest. They were released on bail of two billion tomans each after four months and 15 days in custody, pending trial.

Omid Khezrnezhad was summoned and arrested by the Piranshahr Intelligence Department five days after his cousins, Shwane and Ahad, and was later released on bail of two billion tomans after four months and 20 days in temporary detention.