Dara Rashidi

Dara Rashidi is from Sardasht. He was arrested on the charge of membership in dissident groups.

<coverage-outsourcing id='28688'> <reference source='http://www.asre-nou.net/1385/tir/13/m-kurdestan.html'> He was arrested. Mr. Rashidi was sentenced to seven years in prison for charges such as membership in dissident groups, and assembly and collusion against national security. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='36923'> He was released after serving seven years in Naghdeh and Urmia prisons. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='28689'> He was arrested by the IRGC forces in Mahabad and was transferred to their lockup in Urmia for interrogation. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='28690'> <reference source='http://kurdistanhumanrights.net/fa/?p=11652'> He was transferred from IRGC Intelligence solitary cells to Urmia Prison. He was charged with collusion with dissident groups. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='31651'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-26909/'> The third branch of the revolutionary court of Urmia sentenced Mr. Rashidi to 10 years in prison on the charge of managing a dissident group. His sentence was reduced to seven years and six months after he didn't request an appeal. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='36924'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=16695'> He refused to receive his food ration along with at least 43 other prisoners in Urmia Prison's political ward to protest the lack of medical treatment for sick prisoners. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='36925'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2021/hranews/a-31850/'> The political prisoners in Urmia Prison ended their hunger strikes after positive promises from the authorities and the transfer and hospitalization of Naeb Asgari. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='36922'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2021/hranews/a-31868/'> He went on a hunger strike in protest of the lack of response to the retrial request and the request for parole. Mr. Rashidi is serving his sentence of seven years and six months in Urmia Prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='49918'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=20655'> Prison authorities moved him from the political prisoners' ward to solitary as punishment. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported that Dara Rashidi went on a hunger strike in protest of being sent to solitary. According to KHRN, in recent months, the guard officer in charge of the political prisoners' ward Mr. Rahimpour, the prison security chief Mr. Azarnia, and the prison warden Mr. Bakhshi have visited the political prisoners' ward and insulted the prisoners in that ward by calling them "terrorists". After a group of prisoners objected to Jalal Rahimpour's insults, he threatened them with punishment. KHRN claimed that the transfer of Dara Rashidi to solitary was intended to put more pressure on political prisoners. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='49937'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=20644'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that at least 11 political and religious Kurdish ethnic prisoners, namely Hatam Azdemir, Sardar Uzmesh, Aram Omari, Vafa Hanareh, Anvar Chaleshi, Ashkan Osmannejad, Dara Rashidi, Taher Hosseinzadeh, Reza Pour-Abdollahi, Mansour Choopani, and Mokhtar Ebrahimi are suffering from problems such as brain tumor, lumbar disk, torn tendons, and heart and kidney disease and need to be transferred to the hospital immediately but have been denied medical treatment by the prison authorities. Since the new political prisoners' ward was built outside the main prison building, the prisoners are not allowed to go to the infirmary by themselves, and the only doctor would visit their ward once every few months to examine patients and in the past two months he has refused to visit the ward and examine the political and religious prisoners. According to the report, in recent months, the supervising officer Jalal Rahimpour, chief of security Azarnia, and the warden Mr. Bakhshi visited the political prisoners' ward and insulted the prisoners in that ward by calling them "terrorists". After a group of prisoners objected to Jalal Rahimpour's insults, he threatened them with punishment. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='49919'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=20655'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network reportedthat after his transfer to solitary, Dara Shahidi has been denied all communication. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='50267'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=20684'> He ended his hunger strike. Sources reported that after he ended his hunger strike, he was transferred to ward 15 of the prison. The prison authorities refuse to return him to political prisoners' wad. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>