Stop the execution of Hedayat Abdollahpour

Call for immediate action: There is possibility for Immediate execution of Hedayat Abdollahpour, a Kurdish political prisoner.

According to the report received and confirmed by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Saturday, May 9, The Urmia central prison officials transferred Hedayat Abdollahpour, the political prisoner sentenced to death, from the political prisoners ward to the outside of prison and his fate is unknown to date.

Due to series of executions of Kurdish citizens in Sanandaj, Kermanshah and Urmia prisons over the past few days, Hengaw Organization for Human Rights expresses its deep concern about the possibility of the execution of Hedayat Abdollahpour and calls on all institutions, Organizations and Human Rights activists to take the necessary and effective steps to save the life of this political prisoner and prevent the execution of his death sentence.

Hedayat Abdollahpour was arrested by the Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Forces on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, along with dozens of other citizens of Oshnavieh and was detained in Urmia Intelligence Detention for nearly two months and was subjected to the most severe torture.

On Monday, October 8, 2018, the death sentence of Hedayat Abdollahpour, a political prisoner from Oshnavieh, was upheld by branch 47 of the supreme court and the sentence was officially announced to his lawyer and family.

Hedayat Abdollahpour is married and the father of two children named Sirwan and Kordestan.