Ramin Hosseinpanahi

He was injured and arrested on June 23, 2017 in Sanandaj. He was sentenced to execution

<coverage-outsourcing id='19443'> According to Iran Wire’s interview with Amjad Hosseinpanahi, when he was 16 years old, Ramin Hosseinpanahi was, also, captured and spent two months under arrest in the Intelligence ministry building </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16303'> According to HRANA he was summoned to IRGC headquarters and was released after several hours of interrogation. According to this report one of the agents beat him during his interrogation </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16276'> In the IRGC skirmish with four members of Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Hamed Seifpanahi, Behzad Nouri, and lost their lives and Ramin Hosseinpanahi was arrested after being shot in the waist and leg. In this exchange of fire several IRGC agents, also, lost their lives. According to a statement by the Hosseinpanahi family, Ramin Hosseinpanahi was taken to the hospital and |after half an hour” he was transferred to one of the IRGC detention centers. The Hosseinpanahi family and numerous informed sources voiced their fear that Ramin could lose his life under “torture”, given the “violent history” of the intelligence and security organizations in the Islamic Republic </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16280'> Several hours after the Sanandaj conflicts, IRGC agents attacked the Hosseinpanahi family home. After beating Parvaneh Hosseinpanahi and her aged father, they arrested Afshin Hosseinpanahi. One day after, they arrested Zobeir and Ahmad Hosseinpanahi, and the next day after that they, also, arrested Anvar Hosseinpanahi </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16302'> HRANA reported that security agents, “after searching the home had physical contact with the inhabitants,” an unknown number of the members of Hamed Seifpanahi were killed or arrested in the Sanandaj conflicts and it is possible that Behzad Nouri’s family, was faced the same treatment </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16279'> The Hosseinpanahi family has published a press release describing the incident, giving news of the arrest of Afshin Hosseinpanahi, and expressing concern about the condition of Ramin Hosseinpanahi. This press release can be found in the reference section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16277'> The Central Secretariat of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan published a press release announcing the killing of three of its members. This press release can be found in the reference section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16278'> The Central Secretariat of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan published a second press release announcing and criticizing the arrests, and the “harassment and abuse” of families of those who have lost their lives, the siege of their homes, and cutting them from communication with others. This press release can be found in the reference section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16352'> The Secretariat of the Central Committee of Komala in Kurdistan, Iran published its 3rd press release. The Komala party while reaffirming the need to respect the legal rights of Ramin Hosseinpanahi, requested, “all human rights activists, organizations, and community, and all of the people of Iran” to “not hesitate to make the maximum effort to defend the rights, dignity, and life of the political prisoner, Ramin Hosseinpanahi” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16443'> According to HRANA, Anvar Hosseinpour was transferred to Tehran and released on the condition of never returning to Kurdistan </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16345'> Amjad Hosseinpanahi told The International Campaign For Human Rights In Iran, that IRGC agents warned and threatened the family that they are banned from holding funerals. They surrounded the homes of the families of the killed so that no one could pay them a visit to share their grief. He also conveyed the requests of the Hosseinpanahi family: to know the current situation and condition of Ramin, the unconditional freedom of those arrested who have nothing to do with Komala, the departure of security forces surrounding the homes, and the reception of corpses of their dead </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16351'> The Committee For Defense of Ramin Hosseinpanahi’s Rights issued their press release number 1 that describes the events and lists its demands that aim to defend Ramin Hosseinpanahi’s human rights as an injured prisoner. The statement can be found in the reference section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16329'> HRANA reported that he has been viewed in a hospital outside of the province of Kurdistan </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16385'> Amnesty International: The Iranian authorities must immediately reveal the fate and whereabouts of five men from Iran’s Kurdish minority who have been subject to enforced disappearances since 23 and 24 June 2017. This report can be found in the reference section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16412'> Four human rights groups of Kurdistan published a statement emphasizing that Ramin Hosseinpour’s human rights must be respected and that asking for the freedom of those “had no connection to the Sanandaj conflicts” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16406'> Hossein Panahi’s family wrote a letter to Asma Jahangir, the United Nations special rapporteur, asking for her intervention in the case while severely criticising the arrest, harassment and abuse of their family members </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16479'> Amjad Hosseinpanahi, wrote on his Facebook page that Ramin Hosseinpanahi was in the IRGC hospital in Tehran, but was transferred to Sanandaj Intelligence Ministry detention center at the insistence of the Intelligence Ministry and “up to now he has been subjected to brutal physical and mental torture” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16951'> According to Iran Prison Atlas, Keyvan Hosseinpanahi was arrested because of following-up on the case of Ramin Hosseinpanahi and others of the Hosseinpanahi family </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16884'> Abbas Hosseinpanahi was arrested when paying a visit to Ramin Hosseinpanahi's family </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16956'> The Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan in a statement, regarding the skirmishes in Sanandaj and the arrest of family members, demanded the security and judicial authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran to “insure the respect for the principals of human rights and fair trial, especially the respect for the individual and legal rights of the arrested as well as making sure that the families are kept informed of the situation and condition of their members, and has asked for assurance from the authorities that all the legal and human rights of those arrested be respected </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16885'> His sisters Parvaneh and Massoumeh Hosseinpanahi, wrote a letter to human rights organizations and to “freedom seeking people of Iran and Kurdistan”, asking them to get “seriously involved and active in trying to prevent a family catastrophe” from taking place. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16952'> 1090 political and social activists signed a statement asking for his release </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='17183'> As reported by Iran Prison Atlas, Keyvan Hosseinpanahi was temporarily released, Ahmad and Zeybar Hosseinpanahi have been transferred to Sanandaj prison, but Afshin and Abbas Hosseinpanahi, still remain incarcerated in the Intelligence Ministry Detention Center. There is, more or less, no news of RaminHosseinpanahi and the Ministry of Intelligence has announced to the family that he is not being kept at their detention center </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='17206'> 93 civil society activists in Kurdistan wrote a letter to the governor of Kurdistan, defending the rights of Ramin Hosseinpanahi. This letter can be found in the evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='17288'> IPA reports that Ahmad and Zeybar Hosseinpanahi were released. But Afshin and Abbas Hosseinpanahi remain in prison and there is, more or less, no news of Ramin Hosseinpanahi </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18204'> Amjad Hosseinpanahi wrote on his Facebook page that according to a credible news, Ramin Hosseinpanahi is alive, but under “torture and psychological and physical pressure” at the Intelligence ministry prison in Sanandaj. Afshin Hosseinpanahi is still on hunger strike and Abbas Hosseingpanahi is also, in the solitary cells ward of the Intelligence Ministry detention center in Sanandaj </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18207'> The Hosseinpanahi family announced, in a press release, that intelligence agents threatened the father and mother of Ramin and Afshin Hosseinpanahi that if they refuse to grant an interview their children will be executed. They, also, promised that if they do agree to the interview they will be able to visit their children. According to this press release, the parents of the family agreed to take part in the interview and denied that Afshin Hosseinpanahi was on a hunger strike, but the intelligence agents, nonetheless, denied them the promised visit </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18343'> The Human Rights Defenders of Kurdistan published a statement asking for the civil and judicial rights of Hosseinpanahi family to be respected </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18629'> According to IPA, Afshin Hosseinpanahi’s mother was allowed to visit him for a few minutes, but there is, more or less, no information regarding Ramin Hosseinpanahi and Afshin Hosseinpanahi has claimed, during this meeting, that he has no news of his brother. Abbas Hosseinpanahi, also, remains, under arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18747'> Abbas Hosseinpanahi was released on bail. Afshin Hosseinpanahai was transferred to Sanandaj prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18906'> His sister wrote her second open letter addressed to Human Rights organizations and public opinion </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18955'> Afshin Hosseinpanahi was tried for the charges of “propagating against the state, collusion against the state, contact with foreign media and supporting Kurdish parties”. He did not have access to an attorney in the court. There is, more or less, no news of Ramin Hosseinpanahi </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='19570'> According to IPA, the second court hearing for Ahmad, Zobeir and Afshin Hosseinpanahi who were collectively arrested because of their family relationship with Ramin Hosseinpanahi, was held in one of the branches of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj, headed by judge Saeedi, on the charges of “propagating against he state through participation in the organization of Nowruz ceremony” and “collaboration with Kurdish parties”. Judge Saeedi condemned, Afshin Hosseinpanahi to eight and a half years, Zobeir Hosseinpanahi to six years and Ahmad Hosseinpanahi to five years incarceration. This, when after the end of the hearing, Ahmad and Zobeir Hosseinpanahi were told, orally, that they had been cleared of the charges against them. Until the writing of this report, there is no information on whether or not Article 134 has been applied. On this same day, Ramin Hosseinpanahi’s family has been told not to enquire about him, because he won’t be transferred anywhere and will be executed right there. A threat that led to his mother fainting and being taken to the hospital </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='19609'> Intelligence agents arrested, his parents, who had come to Sanadaj to protest, for several hours and harshly threatened them. This time, too, the Intelligence Ministry agents told the parents that Ramin was going to be executed and that the family would never again have a chance to see their son. Then, they sent them to their homes, but his mother fainted in front of the house and was taken to the hospital </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='19670'> He met his mother, sister, and a civil activist of Sanandaj at an unknown location. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20054'> Amjad Hosseinpanahi wrote on his Facebook page that Ramin Hosseinpanahi was transferred to Sanandaj IRGC Detention Center and the IRGC officials have said he would never be transferred to Sanandaj Prison. He also wrote that Ramin Hosseinpanahi's case is currently at Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj chaired by Judge Saeedi </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20149'> Amjad Hosseinpanahi wrote on his Facebook page that his brother, Afshin Hosseinpanahi, was severely tortured in Sanandaj Intelligent ministry’s detention center. All his fingernails were denailed, part of his head burned with electricity, and suffered in knee and waist areas to speak against his family in front of the camera. Based on this text, he refused to speak and is now deprived of effective health care after being transferred to Sanandaj Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20246'> After returning to Sanandaj Intelligence ministry’s detention center, he went on hunger strike in protest of not being transferred to jail. According to Atlas, IRGC has requested a death sentence for Ramin Hosseinpanahi by sending a letter to Judge Saeedi. He has been charged with "Taking up arms against an Islamic gouvernment (Baghi)" </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20352'> After meeting with his brother, Anvar Hosseinpanahi ended his hunger strike. Intelligence ministry officials and the judge have accepted that he will be able to take counsel and hire a lawyer, his elected lawyer Mr. Hossein Ahmadiniaz can have access to the case, he has access to books and newspaper and can meet with his family </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20547'> Amjad Hosseinpanahi wrote on his Facebook page that, based on his fellow inmates’ reports and what his mother has witnessed meeting with him, Ramin Hosseinpanahi has been tortured severely during his detention at Sanandaj Intelligence Detention Center, one of his kidneys has been severely infected and the wounds of torture are seen on his body. The text also states that Ramin Hosseinpanahi has been suffering from amnesia due to a blow to his head. The degree of damage and the type of amnesia are still unknown </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20543'> According to IPA, he was transferred to Sanandaj prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20569'> Ramin Hosseinpanahi was tried in the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj in the presence of Judge Saeedi and Judge Ghaleh. He stressed that he had come to Sanandaj to meet with his family and denied carrying arms and participation in armed conflict. He also stressed that he was tortured and that he was not offered healthcare </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20638'> The death sentence was conveyed to his lawyer </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20659'> Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Kurdistan Toilers Komala Party, Komala Party of Kurdistan and Iranian Kurdistan Khabat Organization condemned the death sentence for Ramin Hosseinpanahi </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20660'> Ramin and Afshin Hosseinpanahi went on hunger strike to protest the death sentence for Ramin Hosseinpanahi. Their father, Mohammad Hosseinpanahi, went on hunger strike after hearing this news </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20695'> In a letter to the German Chancellor, Sherafat Zarrini asked her f intervene in order to save Ramin Hosseinpanahi's life </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20729'> Afshin and Ramin Hoseinpanahi were transferred to solitary confinement </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20791'> HRANA reported on the end of Ramin and Afshin Hosseinpanahi's hunger strike, based on an interview with Hossein Ahmadiniaz, the lawyer of Ramin Hosseinpanahi. Ramin and Afshin Hosseinpanahi started their protest hunger strike on Saturday, January 27th after Ramin Hosseinpanahi was sentenced to death and ended this protest following an appeal request filed yesterday </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20972'> He was deprived of visits </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21115'> On the order of the judge, his deprivation from family visits were canceled </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21180'> His case was sent to Branch 39 of the Supreme Court located in Qom </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21481'> A number of Twitter users supported him with the hashtag #RaminHosseinPanahi </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21520'> His lawyer, Hossein Ahmadi Niaz, notified Kordpa that Ramin Hosseinpanahi stated during their meeting on January 15th,2017 that “all of his confessions were attained while he was facing torture”; however, neither the trial court nor the supreme court further investigated this matter </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21498'> His lawyer, Hossein Ahmadiniaz, told the Iran Human Rights Organization: > Ramin's confessions were completely made under torture. In objection to this, I demanded that the matter gets addressed, which did not take place. The trial has not been fair from my point of view. Because the bailiffs, prosecutors and courts are all one and do not pay attention to our demands </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21492'> His execution sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21516'> Kordpa reported that the Centre for Iranian Kurdish Party Collaboration has issued a public statement calling for the international community to support Hosseinpanahi’s family </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21503'> His parents were arrested in front of Sanadaj prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21713'> Agnès S. Callamard, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Dainius Pūras, UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, issued a joint statement calling for a halt to Ramin Hosseinpanahi’s death sentence </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21865'> Ramin Hossein Panahi was transferred to the quarantine ward of the prison. This move raised concerns about the likelihood of the execution of his death sentence </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21862'> Nashtman Hossein Panahi, Ramin and Afshin Hosseinpanahi's nephew and wife of Ahmad Hosseinpanahi killed herself. Amjad Hosseinpanahi wrote on his Facebook page that Nashtman Hosseinpanahi has ended his life after hearing the news of Ramin Hosseinpanahi's transfer for the execution of the death sentence </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21861'> He was returned to the general ward </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21866'> The Kurdistan province judiciary, in reaction to news published by different media outlets, issued a public statement declaring that he was “armed with a Kalashnikov, a pistol, and a grenade, and while being investigated, confessed to armed entry and clashing with officers”. This public statement is included in the evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22025'> Radio Farda, in a news release on the case, cited a report from the AKAM News website, which is said to be close to the Intelligence ministry. The report, released on July 17, 2017, said that the four (whom Ramin Hossein Panahi were among) were "trapped by security and military forces, and without even finding a chance to shoot a bullet, faced the shot of special operations forces" </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21867'> His lawyer, Hossein Ahmadiniaz, published a text on his Facebook page in response to the statement of the Kurdistan Province Justice Department. Mr. Ahmadiniaz, in his reply, has described the cases of violations of the fair trial. He stressed that Ramin Hosseinpanahi was wounded and unconscious at the beginning of the conflict and therefore has not had any armed action. This text is recorded in the Evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22175'> An informed source told Atlas that the Branch 39 of the Supreme Court has sent the case to the 4th branch of the Orders Enforcement Department for the execution of death sentence </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22241'> The prison's authorities summoned him and read the execution verdict for him </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22353'> His mother, Sherafat Zarrini, in a letter to Federica Mogherini, called on her to ask Iranian officials to dismiss her son (Ramin Hossein Panahi)’s death sentence. One month later she received this answer: > The European Union is well aware of the situation of Mr Panahi and has been following it closely. We have recently raised concerns with the Iranian authorities in the context of his conviction to the death penalty. .. The EU remains concerned about the prevailing situation of human rights in Iran, including the condition of ethnic and religious minorities. Human rights has been a core element of our engagement with Iran and we have never refrained from raising human rights issues with Iran </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22796'> The Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that prison authorities have stopped Ramin Hosseinpanahi’s treatment under the justification that “a prisoner sentenced to death does not need medical treatment”, and have also subjected Afshin Hosseinpanahi to violence and beatings. A man by the name of Mr. Abbasi has been named as being in charge of the mentioned violence </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22693'> Ramin Hosseinpanaahi and Zanyar Moradi by writing an open letter to “socio-political and human rights activists and the noble people of Iran” asked for their reaction to the recent execution of political activists. This letter is included in the evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22871'> Branch 38 of the Supreme Court rejected the request for a retrial </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22896'> 40 judges, parliamentarians, and socio-political activists called for the pardon of Hosseinpanahi by writing a letter to the Supreme Leader of the Iranian state </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23083'> His lawyer called for the suspension of the sentence, and "amnesty and pardoning of the death sentence for his client" </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22980'> According to a report, upon the guards’ entrance into Sanandaj prison to take political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi away, a number of prisoners tried to resist. As a result of the subsequent clashes, Ramin Hossein Panahi and some other prisoners were injured </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22979'> UN special rapporteurs issued a declaration calling for a stop to Ramin Hosseinpanahi’s death sentence </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23020'> A number of people and civil activists gathered in front of the prison in protest of the probable execution of Ramin Hosseinpanahi. The security forces arrested a number of protestors </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23011'> According to Amjad Hosseinpanahi, intelligence forces transported his father to a location where they they recorded him saying scripted statements through “pressure and threats to kill his son” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23156'> 60 lawyers called for his pardon, writing a letter to the head of the judiciary </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23176'> Mr. Abbasi. The head of the prison’s security told Ramin Hosseinpanahi: “If you end up not getting executed, you’ll be killed in the prison through our agents”. The day after, him and accompanying officers proceeded to severely beat Hosseinpanahi, after which he was transferred to Ward 5 of Sanandaj prison which is designated for addicts and murder convicts. According to the report published by Amjad Hosseinpanahi, officials have told Ramin Hosseinpanahi that he’ll either be executed, or killed by the prisoners in Ward 5 </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23437'> His lawyer was arrested for a short time </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='25467'> He was transferred to Rajaei Shahr prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='24041'> He was executed </coverage-outsourcing>