Siamak Ashrafi Ashgehsou

Siamak Ashrafi Ashgehsou

He was sentenced to prison on the charge "collaboration with Kurdish groups"

  • <coverage-outsourcing id='19478'> He was arrested. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, he was sentenced to five years in prison on the charge "cooperation with Kurdish groups" by judge Sheikhlou </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='19479'> Along with four others in Urmia prison’s psychiatric ward 1 where severely assaulted & beaten by around 40 prisoners with dangerous charges. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, after this attack, all five were taken to solitary cells in leg & hand cuffs. According to this report, later, Mr. Alireza Safari, the chief warden of the prison at the time, covered his face & with the help of the other guards, using a baton, assaulted and beat them again. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network, quoting an informed source, wrote, that the assaulting group was under the supervision of Rashid Zolf Alizadeh & Hossein Gharabaghi, the warden of the psychiatric ward, who had previously beaten the political prisoner Hassan Rastegari Majd </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='20072'> According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, he went on a hunger strike in protest of not getting transferred to political prisoners’ ward </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='20150'> According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, he stitched his lips </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='20213'> He ended his hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='29711'> <reference source='http://kurdistanhumanrights.net/fa/?p=12435'> After the Coronavirus outbreak, Ali Khamenei ordered a large number of prisoner's freedom by issuing a directive. This directive (with several clauses ) has been mentioned to the political prisoners too. The political prisoners who have been sentenced under five years in prison will be released from prison by security agencies' approval. He was released from prison based on this directive </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>