On Saturday 19th of April, Adnan Hassanpour (Ednan Hesenpur), the Kurdish imprisoned journalist has been transferred from the central prison of Zahedan to Meriwan prison, HRANA News Agency reported.
An informed source told HRANA’s reporter, “he has been taken out of the ward with all of his personal accessories, in order to be transferred to Meriwan”.
On the 25th of January 2007, Adnan Hassanpour was arrested and after enduring several months of solitary confinement in Sine Intelligence Detention Centre, he was tried closed at Revolutionary Court in Meriwan on the 12th of June 2007.
After being held for four months in detention, the Revolutionary Court prosecutors sentenced Adnan Hassanpour in April 2007 by acting against national security called Moharebeh, which is punishable by death under Iran’s Islamic Penal Code.
The verdict was announced to one of his lawyers on the 17th of July 2007. After a three month of this sentence, his verdict was approved by Branch 32 of the Iranian Supreme Court.
It’s notable after confirming Hassanpour’s death sentence, his lawyers, Saleh Nikbakht and Sirwan Houshmandi have requested that restitution hearing turned the case back to the Supreme Court. Finally his sentence was nullified by another branch of the Supreme Court.
After the announcement of the court’s lack of jurisdiction also previous judge via lawyers, Adnan Hassanpour was tried in a closed by Revolutionary Court of Sine in two times.
Adnan Hassanpour was sentenced to 31 years imprisonment but the sentence was reduced to 16 years by protesting lawyers in Court of Appeal.
Although in the last 7 month some of the political prisoners were released from prison once Rouhani came to power, the Kurdish political prisoners were excluded from the amnesty. Contrary to Mr Rouhani’s election campaign slogans discriminatory policies still systematically implemented by his government and since his government came to power dozens of Kurds has been arrested.
Hassanpour is the former editor of the journal ASO, which was banned in August, 2005. Reporters Without Borders and Amnesty International have spoken out on behalf of Hassanpour.
International circles of human rights are concerned about the new wave of arrest of political activists and journalists in Iran and Rojhelat (East Kurdistan).
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