Hengaw's special report on seventeen Kurdish political prisoners at the Oshnvieh Central Prison

Hengaw: At least seventeen political prisoners are being held at the Oshnavieh Central Prison,

27 May 2020 18:12


Hengaw: At least seventeen political prisoners are being held at the Oshnavieh Central Prison, that the news of the arrest and penalty of seven of them has not yet been published in any media.

According to the Hengaw Human Rights Organization, Seventeen Kurdish political prisoners are currently being held at the Oshnavieh Central Prison, where they have been sentenced to a total of eighty-one years and six months in prison.

The Hengaw has previously reported on ten of these prisoners and the news of the arrest or conviction of seven of them is the first time to be published, and the news about them has not been made public yet.

Of those 17 political prisoners, 15 have been convicted of collaborating with the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), one Kurdish citizen has been convicted of collaborating with the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), and one has been sentenced to the prison for labour activities.

The names of these seventeen political prisoners:
1- Ali Arefi
2- Fakhraddin Darwish Pour
3- Mansour Mamand Rash
4- Rasoul Barout
5- Rashid Naserzada
6- Hamed Sofi Amirabad
7- Nader Zeyaei Far
8- Shafia Faghizadeh
9- Aboubakr Mina Pak
10- Mohammad Amin Ghazi
11- Kamel Ahmadi
12- Kourosh Azizi
13- Teyeb Ba Morrowat
14- Maghdid Mohammadzadeh
15- Yousof Ahmadi
16- Seyed Najmaddin Hosseini
17- Yousof Smsan
 


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