At 1:00 AM on Saturday, April 19, 2025, Fars News Agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), broadcast a five-minute video featuring the forced confession of Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, a Kurdish political…
On Saturday, April 19, 2025, the family of Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death, gathered for over two hours outside the Urmia Revolutionary Court. Despite repeated appeals, government security…
In the case of Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death, a formal statement by an eyewitness—identified as Q.S.—confirms that Hamid was in Turkey on November 3, 2017 (12 Aban 1396), precisely when…
On Thursday, April 18, 2025, with only hours remaining before the scheduled execution of Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, his Kurdish family, acting without any official notice, gathered in front of Urmia Central Prison to protest the…
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.…
Kurdistan Press Agency
