On Friday, April 18, 2025, Osman Mazin, one of the attorneys representing Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, released an official execution notice dated today (April 18) and confirmed that the execution has not been carried out so far. He…
As the family of Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou gathered outside Urmia Central Prison early this morning, April 16, 2025, demanding “Where is your evidence?” in protest of his imminent execution, only hours remain until the scheduled time…
Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, a Kurdish political prisoner, was sentenced to death in July 2024 by Reza Najafzadeh, head of Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Urmia, on charges of "rebellion through membership in the Kurdistan…
Reza Najafzadeh, a judge and the head of Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Urmia, is one of the judiciary officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran who has played a key role in issuing heavy and death sentences, particularly…
Qasem Mazinani, the head of Branch 9 of Iran’s Supreme Court, is one of the key figures in the approval of death sentences for political prisoners and protesters in recent years. By upholding verdicts issued by Revolutionary Courts, he has…
Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death, was transferred today, Wednesday, April 15, 2025, to solitary confinement in Urmia Prison, with his execution scheduled to take place in less than 48 hours.…
Mamousta Loqman Amini, the Friday Prayer Leader of the Chahar Yar Nabi Grand Mosque in Sanandaj, has been summoned to the Special Clerical Court in Hamedan.
On April 14, 2025, the death sentence of Naser Bakrzadeh, a Kurdish prisoner held at Urmia Central Prison, was overturned during the appeals process by Branch 39 of the Supreme Court of Iran.
At dawn on Tuesday, April 14, 2025, the death sentences of two Kurdish prisoners, Peyman Naderi from Kermanshah and Karim Esmaeili from Eslamabad-e Gharb County, were carried out at Bandar Abbas Central Prison.
In the early hours of Tuesday, April 14, 2025, the death sentence of a Kurdish prisoner named Yadgar Rahimnejad, a native of Baneh, was carried out at Kerman Central Prison.
Kurdistan Press Agency
