Hamid Hoseinnejad Heydaranlou

Hamid Hosseinnejad Heydaranlou is from "Segrik" village of Chaldoran in West Azerbaijan. He has been sentenced to death for being a member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

• <coverage-outsourcing id='63905'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/y9ujdfta'> According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, he was arrested by border guards at Chaldoran border and taken to the detention center of this organization. According to this report, he was interrogated for several hours in the detention center and then bail was issued to him, but at the request of the Ministry of Intelligence, the bail was not accepted and he was transferred to the Urmia Intelligence Detention Center. Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that in "making a fake case" against Hamid Hosseinnejad, the Ministry of Intelligence, without providing any evidence, claimed that since his brother-in-law, Mostafa Nouri, was shot in 2014 while doing business in the border areas of Chaldoran, Hamid must have had a "grudge" against the border guards, and because of that, he assisted the Kurdistan Workers' Party forces in their conflict against border guards. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='63908'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/y9ujdfta'> The Kurdistan Human Rights Network, in a report, while addressing the period of his detention and interrogation, announced that he was transferred to Ward 2 of Urmia prison. According to this report, he was subjected to severe physical and mental torture by the interrogators and the investigator of the case, Estiri, on the charge of participating in the armed conflict of the Kurdistan Workers' Party forces with the border guards, which led to the death of eight border guards, and which forced him to confess and incriminate himself. The report stated that while Heyder Hosseinpour was not sufficiently literate, he was forced to sign papers that the security interrogators had prepared in advance. According to this report, after eight months of his arrest, he managed to make two short phone calls to his family and was denied the right to access a lawyer and family visits. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='63906'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/y9ujdfta'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network wrote that he has been sentenced to death by the first branch of the Revolutionary Court of Urmia, headed by Judge Najafzadeh, on charges of sedition through membership in one of the opposition parties. According to this report, following his objection to the issued verdict, the case has been referred to the Supreme Court. The report stated: > Mr. Hosseinnejad Heydaranlou denied all the charges in all stages of the investigation and also in the court session held in the first branch of the Islamic Revolution Court of Urmia, and declared that his confession was taken under torture while deprived of the right to have a lawyer of his choosing due to the opposition of the Ministry of Intelligence. However, the court did not accept his defense and even though he had provided documentary evidence proving that he had traveled to Turkey with his family on the day of the conflict between the Border Guard Forces and the Kurdistan Workers' Party, Judge Najafzadeh charged him with rebellion through membership in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and sentenced him to death." The Kurdistan Human Rights Network wrote that the judge issued the death sentence in a few minutes citing the "knowledge of the judge . </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>