Transfer of a citizen from Piranshahr to Urmia prison for serving his sentence
11:17 - 31 March 2020
On Monday, March 30th, a Kurdish citizen named "Rahim Hassan Mahali", 50, son of Karim from Piranshahr, was transferred to ward three of Urmia Prison after serving two weeks in quarantine.
This Kurdish citizen was detained by intelligence forces and after 32 days detention in Urmia Ettelaat Detention Center, they transferred him to the central prison of Urmia and then released on bail.
last year, this Kurdish citizen was sentenced to four years' imprisonment by the second branch of the Urmia Revolutionary Court for "espionage for the Iraqi Kurdistan" and this sentence was upheld at the Urmia Court of Appeal.
