A Kurdish political prisoner, not granted leave for over two decades
13:28 - 31 May 2012
Kurdpa: A Kurdish political prisoner has been deprived of his leave of absence rights for 21 years.
According to reports obtained by Kurdpa News Agency, Osman Mostafapour, a political activist from the Kurdish city of Piranshar (in West-Azerbijan province in north-western Iran) was arrested in 1991 accused of collaborating with one of the Kurdish political groups opposed to the regime of Islamic Republic of Iran.
Following numerous trials, his 25-year sentence was confirmed; however, his family’s efforts for a leave of absence or conditional release have been stalled ever since.
In a telephone conversation with Kurdpa, one of Osman’s relatives stated: While he has been in prison, he has lost his mother, brother, sister and even a niece; however, the judicial and security officials have refrained from allowing him leave of absence or even oral statements for funeral precession.
Mostafapour’s family have attempted on numerous occasions to get the judiciary’s consent for his temporary conditional leave, a right that should be accorded to every prisoners under the law, which he has been dispossessed of, the relative further added.
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Osman Mostafapour was arrested in 1991 along with six other Kurdish political activists of whom two were executed and the rest were sentenced to long-term prison terms.
He, along another prisoner, had previously publicised a suffering memoir of their agonizing 20-year prison term.
According to reports obtained by Kurdpa News Agency, Osman Mostafapour, a political activist from the Kurdish city of Piranshar (in West-Azerbijan province in north-western Iran) was arrested in 1991 accused of collaborating with one of the Kurdish political groups opposed to the regime of Islamic Republic of Iran.
Following numerous trials, his 25-year sentence was confirmed; however, his family’s efforts for a leave of absence or conditional release have been stalled ever since.
In a telephone conversation with Kurdpa, one of Osman’s relatives stated: While he has been in prison, he has lost his mother, brother, sister and even a niece; however, the judicial and security officials have refrained from allowing him leave of absence or even oral statements for funeral precession.
Mostafapour’s family have attempted on numerous occasions to get the judiciary’s consent for his temporary conditional leave, a right that should be accorded to every prisoners under the law, which he has been dispossessed of, the relative further added.
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Osman Mostafapour was arrested in 1991 along with six other Kurdish political activists of whom two were executed and the rest were sentenced to long-term prison terms.
He, along another prisoner, had previously publicised a suffering memoir of their agonizing 20-year prison term.
