18 May 2020 :
Concerns Over Fate of Hedayat Abdollahpour, a Kurdish Political Prisoner, 9 days After Disappearance. According to IHR, Hedayat Abdollahpour was transferred from the political prisoners' ward of Urmia Central Prison to an unknown location on May 10. His family, who have not had any contact with him worry that his sentence may have been carried out. On Tuesday, May 12, when his wife followed up on his whereabouts from the warden of Urmia Prison, she was told that forces of the IRGC Intelligence had transferred him out of the prison and that she must go to the Bureau of Implementation of the Verdicts. When the family inquiried about Mr. Abdollahpur from the Revolutionary Court, the assistant Prosecutor threatens them. He told Mrs. Abdollahpur: “The Department of Intelligence will not answer you. You would better look for him in the cemetery.” A well-informed source told Iran Human Rights (IHR), "Today [Saturday, May 16], Maziar Tataei, Hedayat's lawyer, went to the Urmia Court and was told that the IRGC's intelligence had taken Hedayat for interrogation. According to the court, the sentence had not been carried out." Last week, his lawyers told IHR: "While it is true that Hedayat's death sentence has been upheld, there is no legal basis and would be illegal for any action to be taken to enforce his sentence as long as his case is at the Amnesty and Pardon Commission.” Today, a government source unofficially told some political prisoners that Hedayat had been transferred to Tehran by the IRGC's intelligence services. Hedayat Abdollahpour was arrested along with at least six others in a village near Oshnavieh city, West Azerbaijan province, on June 15, 2016. The seven detainees were accused of providing food and shelter to members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran during clashes with the Revolutionary Guards. Hedayat is the only one of those detained to be sentenced to death on charges of "rebellion" following a complaint by the Revolutionary Guards and ruling by the 1st Branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Urmia. His sentence was overturned by the 47th Branch of the Supreme Court and referred to the 2nd Branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Urmia for review. Hedayat was again sentenced to death by this branch, and the sentence was finally upheld by the 47th Branch of the Supreme Court. There has been a sharp rise in prison executions in Kurdish areas in recent months. Implementing sentences of prisoners whose cases are at the Amnesty and Pardon Commission is illegal but not unprecedented. Ramin Hossein Panahi, a Kurdish prisoner was executed in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, while his case was still at the Amnesty and Pardon Commission (see HoC 08/09/2018).
https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4248/
