Roya Hosseinnezhad, daughter of Kurdish political prisoner “Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydranlou”, has released a video after a year of having no information about her father’s condition and fate. In the video, she calls on all people of Iran, public opinion, international organizations, and human rights activists and institutions to support her father.
Roya Hosseinnezhad, daughter of Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydranlou, the political prisoner, said the following:
“I am Roya Hosseinnezhad, the daughter of Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydranlou. At the time of the clashes in the Maku and Chaldoran region, my family and I were in Turkey. Our presence there is fully verifiable through the exit and entry stamps of the Bazargan customs in our passports, and also through the roaming records of my father’s SIM card on that date.
Nevertheless, my illiterate father was tortured in security detention centers for 11 months and 10 days, and under pressure, he was forced to make coerced confessions—confessions that our lawyers have proven to be baseless. But the judicial system of the Islamic Republic refuses to acknowledge the truth.
I call on all international institutions, on you free human beings, and on Dr. Mai Sato: please don’t let them execute my innocent father. Please don’t let us be left without a father.”
It should be noted that the death sentence of Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydranlou was officially upheld by Branch 9 of the Supreme Court and formally communicated to him on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, in Orumiyeh Central Prison.
Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydranlou is a 39-year-old political prisoner from the village of Sagrik in Chaldoran County. He is married and has three children.
He was arrested on April 13, 2023, by border guards at the Chaldoran border and was first transferred to the Chaldoran Border Guard Detention Center, and then to the Intelligence Ministry’s detention facility in Orumiyeh.
He was held in the Orumiyeh Intelligence Detention Center for 11 months and 10 days, during which time he was subjected to severe psychological and physical torture to extract coerced confessions about involvement in an armed conflict between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Iranian border forces.
Lacking proper literacy, he was forced under torture to sign pre-prepared statements dictated by security interrogators.
In late July 2024, Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh, presided over by Judge Najafzadeh, sentenced him to death on charges of “rebellion (baghi)” through alleged membership in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
He is currently held in Ward 2 (Reception Unit) of Orumiyeh Central Prison and, since his arrest, has only been allowed two phone calls with his family. He has been denied access to legal counsel and stripped of all his basic human rights.
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