Mostafa Salimi

He is a resident of the Niloo Village, near Saghez. This Kurdish citizen was charged with membership in a Kurdish political party and sentenced to execution

• <coverage-outsourcing id='738'> Mostafa Salimi became a member of a Kurdish opposition group in 2001 and spent three years with this group. Salimi ultimately ended his work with this group around 2003 and took residence in a relative's house in the town of Nahavand, in the Lorestan Province </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='739'> He was arrested by security forces in a relative's house in Nahavand. Salimi was transferred to the Sanandaj Intelligence Ministry's lock-up and later transferred to the Saghez Intelligence Ministry's lock-up </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7990'> He was exiled to Rajaei Shahr prison in Karaj. He was incarcerated there for one & a half years, where he went on a one month hunger strike. After this period, he was transferred to Saqez prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='747'> He was tried in Branch 1 of Saghez's Revolutionary Court presided by Judge Godini on charges of "Enmity against God," "collaboration with the PDKI" and "armed robbery" sentenced to execution </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7991'> He published a letter from Saqez prison describing his condition </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='742'> He was transferred to solitary confinement in Saghez's Central Prison. Saghez Prison Authorities sent Salimi to solitary confinement in response to his involvement in a physical altercation with a member of prison personnel </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='743'> In protest of a government agency not granting him forgiveness, he began a hunger strike in Saghez Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='744'> He was involved in an altercation with prison authorities following his request for supplies and inventory for the prison cafeteria. Prison authorities purchased the requested goods using funds provided by Salimi, but then refused to deliver the goods to him. This was the cause for complaints made by Salimi, which eventually led the authorities to put him in shackles, beat him, and transfer him to solitary confinement. After this incident, Salimi was deprived of the right to make phone calls or receive visitors </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='740'> He began a hunger strike in protest of the confirmation of his death sentence by the Supreme Court </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='745'> He was transferred to solitary confinement on the ninth day of his hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='741'> He ended his hunger strike and was subsequently transferred from solitary confinement to the Public Ward of Saghez Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='746'> He consistently struggled with physical and medical complications including kidney infections, lower back pain, knee pain and trouble with his vision. Despite this, his requests for medical attention were never granted </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='6759'> It was reported that, in a sudden manner, he was transferred to an unknown location. His family are worried that his sentence of execution has been implemented </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7992'> Maf News reported that he is under pressure to give a television confession </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10273'> HRANA reported that, around, five months ago, he was exiled from Saqez prison to Sanandaj prison. According to this report, the reason behind the transfer was the prolongation of the period of incarceration. HRANA writes, this situation has made it very difficult for his family to visit him. Presently his case is in the deputy head of the judiciary’s office under the supervision of Ayatollah Hessari </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15876'> HRANA reported that he has embarked on a hunger strike in protest to his continued exile </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19769'> HRANA reported that, around three months ago, he was returned from Sanandaj prison to Saqez prison. HRANA, quotes an informed source, “a while ago, a weapon was found in the prisons workshop. Even though Mostafa was in the snack shop at the time, & had no connection to the workshop, but because the charge in his case was close to the subject, for this reason, a number of prisoner, including him, without any clear connection to the issue, were sent to Sanandaj. Now that he has returned, his requests to work in the workshop have been rejected by the prison authorities, who say, we don’t deem it appropriate that you go there, before this weapons had been found there” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='22964'> His 20 year old son has attempted suicide. According to a report by HRANA, he had visited the 6th branch of the Justice Department in Saqqez to follow up with his father’s casefile, and after protesting about the situation, was faced with insults by the judge and other personnel at the branch. According to this report, he had been threatened and was told he’d be “thrown out of the window”. An hour later, after returning home, he attempted to take his life by taking some pills, and was transferred to the ICU at Imam Khomeini hospital in Saqqez.Two days later, Mostafa Salimi was allowed to see his son for a few minutes - who was in a coma - from the windows of the ICU </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29983'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%81%db%8c-%d8%b3%d9%84%db%8c%d9%85%db%8c/'> He escaped from prison along with a group of prisoners (who had protested against the non-granting of leave in the outbreak of the coronavirus) and left the country to the Kurdistan Region. It seems that the Kurdistan Region intelligence forces have cooperated with the Iranian government and returned him to Iran </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29984'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%81%db%8c-%d8%b3%d9%84%db%8c%d9%85%db%8c/'> According to IPA, Mostafa Salimi is at the risk of being executed. An informed source told IPA’s researchers that Saqez Prison officials have asked Mr. Salimi's family came over to visit him for the last time. He has also mentioned that another prisoner has been transferred to solitary confinement for execution </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29985'> He was executed </coverage-outsourcing>