Body of Kurdish political prisoner not returned after secret execution, family threatened

Body of Kurdish political prisoner not returned after secret execution, family threatened

Iranian authorities have refused to hand over the body of Kurdish political prisoner Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heidaranlou following his secret execution, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has reported. On the evening of 21 April, his family were summoned by judicial officials in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, informed of the secret execution and warned against holding a public memorial. Behzad Sarkhanlou, the Deputy Prosecutor of Orumiye…

Iran: Secret Execution of Kurdish Kolbar

Around 10:30 p.m. on Monday, April 21, the deputy prosecutor of West Azerbaijan province informed the family of Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death, that he had been transferred to Tehran and executed earlier that same Saturday. The family of this Kurdish citizen, whose execution has been confirmed by judiciary officials but who have not yet received his body or been informed of his burial location, h…

Political Prisoner Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou Executed

HRANA News Agency – Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, a political prisoner from Chaldoran, was executed secretly without his family’s knowledge. Judicial authorities summoned his family to the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Urmia, where they informed them that his execution had been carried out after he was transferred to Tehran. According to HRANA, citing Fars News Agency, Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, a political prisoner, h…