Touraj Esmaili

A resident of Urmia

• <coverage-outsourcing id='4964'> It was reported that he is being held in Ward 13 of Urmia Central Prison, alongside regular inmates. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='5450'> It was reported that he was tried in Branch 2 of Urmia revolutionary Court and sentenced to five years in prison on the charge of "Attempts against national security" </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18502'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network reports that 27 religious prisoners and 13 political prisoners were sent to ward 12 of Urmia prison. The list of the religious prisoners and their sentences is as follows: Mansour Mohammadpour, Fayegh Karimi, Peyman Behrouzifar, Hedayat Alizadeh and Iraj Sufi (all temporary arrests), Ghafour Asvar (68 months), Behzad Abbasi and Pouya Salehi (10 years each), Sardar Osmanbakr, Amir Sufi, Rasoul Shayer, Moloud Shayer, Sirvan Mahmoudi, Yousef Kamla, Rahmat Mirzaei, Kika Nikvand, Bahman Ghaderpour, Zana Ahmadi, Abdolvahed Salamat, Saman Ardalan, Abdolvahed Ebrahimi, Vahab Seyed Ahmadi, Mohsen Cham (five years each), Abdolkhalegh Mohammadzadeh and Kazem Darvishi (three years each), Habibollah Amini (45 months), Tofigh Abdollahi (15 years). The list of political prisoners and their sentences is as follows: Jalal Masrouri (15 years), Kamal Masrouri (10 years), and Yaghoub Baekram (10 years according to some sources 15 years), Hedayat Abdollahpour (execution), Rasoul Azizi (25 years), Mohammad Zaher Faramarzi (20 years), Ali Arasteh, Mohammad Amin Peyghami, Taher Khorshidi and Farough Sharvirani (all in temporary arrest), Touraj Esmaeli (45 months), Ali Yeganeh (five years), and Mostafa Sabzi (15 years). Prior to the two collective transfers of political prisoner to ward 10 of political prisoners, one prisoner with security charges and eight regular prisoners were incarcerated there </coverage-outsourcing>