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The Unknown Fate of a Death-Row Political Prisoner’s Brother

1 Sep 18
The Unknown Fate of a Death-Row Political Prisoner’s Brother

Iran Human Rights (August 31, 2018): There has been no information regarding the whereabouts of Farhad Abdollahpour. He was arrested for investigating the condition of his brother who is a death-row prisoner and now Farhad’s family is worried about him.

According to a close source, Farhad Abdollahpour was arrested by the agents of the Revolutionary Guard on June 30, 2018. He is the brother of Hedayat Abdollahpour, a political prisoner at Urmia Central Prison who was sentenced to death on the charge of rebellion through providing a Kurdish opposition party with food and shelter.

The father of these prisoners told IHR, “I am the father of Hedayat and Farhad Abdollahpour. My son, Farhad, has been in custody for two months. The guards went to the houses of my sons to find guns, which they didn’t, and they beat my son [Farhad] and took him to an unknown place. We have no information about his whereabouts, although we went to security institutions and the Judiciary.

On Tuesday (August 28), someone told my wife that Farhad was killed under torture three days earlier. We went to the city governorate and told them about the news. They supposedly called the Ministry of Intelligence of Urmia and were told that our son was alive. They told us that his detention was over a month ago, so why they don't send him to the court? I don't know my son is dead or alive. If he is not alive, deliver us his body and if he is, show him to me so that I stop worrying.”

He continued, “His uncle has gone to the court several times and they tell him that they will bring Farhad but they don’t. If he is alive, he must be badly injured under torture, that’s why they are not showing him to us. Twenty days ago, the Ministry of Intelligence told us to visit Farhad but we were only allowed to talk to him in Farsi. His mother didn’t know Farsi so she just sat there in silence. Over the past two months, we visited him a few times. One time, he was so badly wounded under torture that he looked like a corpse. Visiting him was useless because we couldn’t talk in our language.”

It should be noted that there was an armed conflict between the members of the Democratic Party of Iran's Kurdistan and the Islamic Revolutionary guards in Oshnaviyeh on June 14, 2016. Following the conflict, a number of locals of Oshnaviyeh were also arrested and convicted on the charges of cooperation with the members of the Democratic Party of Iran's Kurdistan and providing them with food.

Hedayat Abdollahpour was one of the convicts who was arrested on June 15, 2016. He was the only one who was sentenced to death on the charge of rebellion due to a complaint by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the verdict of Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Urmia. The verdict was rejected by Branch 47 the Supreme Court. However, Hedayat Abdollahpour was sentenced to death again by Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court of Urmia and he is currently held at Urmia central Prison waiting for his sentence to be issued.