These days, though Western powers are optimistic towards the Iranian nuclear programme, Iranian human rights situation not only has changed over the presidency of Ahmadinejad, but has doubled the number of executions and detentions according to international human rights groups.
Simko Xelqeti the Kurdish political prisoner has been transferred from Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj to the ward 350 in Evin prison in Tehran.
Earlier Xelqeti coincides with the end of a three-day hunger strike by Rajai Shahr prisoners was taken into custody “solitary confinement” on the pretext of meeting his family on 29 January 2014. Prison officials punished him for joining strikers.
Simko Xelqeti 32 from Mehabad the Kurdish prisoner who was imprisoned in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj has been transferred to the ward 350 in Evin Prison in Tehran on March 4, 2014. Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported.
He had been arrested in Arak in 2009 and was imprisoned in the ward 209 in Evin prison where he was under pressure for video confessions.
According to Campaign in Defense of Civil and Political Prisoners the metallurgical engineer Simko has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on charge of acting against national security through membership in one of the Kurdish parties opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Despite concerns, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International and other human rights circles, has not made a serious change in the mentality of the Iranian authorities to improve human rights in this country.
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