• <coverage-outsourcing id='13480'> Kamal Ahmadnejad was arrested in Gavmish Goli village from the suburbs of Miandoab city. Helmat Abdollahi, Suleiman Kori, Milad Abdi, Saeed Siahi, and Mostafa Tahazadewere all arrested by the security forces around the same time in connection with this case. They were arrested on the charge of "murder of a Basij member (in some sources, Revolutionary Guard member)" </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13483'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported via an informed source that he was sentenced to eight months in prison along with five other prisoners for the charge of "cooperation with one of the Kurdistani parties". According to the report, after the objection of one of these prisoners to the verdict, he was acquitted of the charge in the appeal court </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13486'> Kamal Ahmadinejad was sentenced to death in Branch 1 of Miandoab for "murder". An informed source has said that: > Although there were witnesses present to testify on his behalf that he was not at the scene of the murder, the court ignored the defense statement and sentenced him without summoning any witnesses to testify . Regarding the other defendants in the case, the source added: > The other five defendants were all sentenced to 15 years in prison for being accessories to murder. Four of these prisoners were later temporarily released on bails of 300 million tomans (in some sources 200 million tomans) and currently, only Kamal Ahmadnejad and Suleiman Kouri remain in Miandoab Prison; Ahmadnejad due to his death sentence and Kouri due to inability to produce his bail </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13493'> Press TV, which is affiliated with the Islamic Republic, broadcasted a video of Kamal Ahmadinejad's "confession" to the "murder of Hashem Zeinali, a Basij member". Other defendants also appeared in the video. In a letter to Asma Jahangir, United Nations special rapporteur designate for Human Rights in Iran, Mr. Ahmadnejad said that he was forced to confess under torture. He says in the letter: > The interview manuscript was prepared a few days earlier by my interrogators, and I was tortured into memorizing the manuscript so I could recite it verbatim in the interview. During the interview, I refused to do so on a number of occasions, and each time I was forced to continue after getting torture and threatened </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13488'> According to some reports, one of the branches of the supreme court in Qom confirmed the verdict of Miandoab court, but the report was denied later </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13487'> According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, Helmat Abdollahi, Milad Abdi, Mostafa Tahazadeh, and Saeed Siahi were arrested again on February 8th and 9th </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21511'> Maf News reported that Milad Abdi, Helmet Abdollahi and Saeed Siahi, who had been on hunger strike to protest the prosecutor and the intelligence agency, ended their strike. The length of the strike time is not specified in this report </coverage-outsourcing>