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Behrouz Alakhani: Prisoner of the day

Sentenced to death

ICHRI: A local human rights source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Behrouz Alakhani, a political prisoner who was arrested by security forces on 26 January 2009, is kept among drug traffickers. The source told the Campaign that Alakhani, 26, a Kurdish citizen of Salmas, is in grave conditions after spending 19 months in solitary confinement inside Salmas, Khoy, and Orumiyeh detention centers.

According to the source, Alakhani was first arrested on charges of "cooperating with PJAK," and was interrogated for several months, but after a while he was additionally charged with "participating in the murder of Khoy Prosecutor." "During all phases of the interrogations, this Kurdish political prisoner refuted the charge of participating in the murder of Khoy Prosecutor. The judge, however, found the defendant guilty of "participating in the murder" and issued a death sentence against him based only on his own understanding and knowledge and testimony of a friend of this political prisoner, who has described him "worried and anxious" on the night of the murder. Alakhani's case is now pending final ruling in the Supreme Court," said the source.

"This prisoner has been banned from having telephone contact with his family and can only visit with his family once a month in the presence of security forces. After near 20 months [in prison], the Prosecutor for Orumiyeh General and Revolutionary Courts indicted him on charges of 'cooperating with The Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK),' and 'participation in the murder of Khoy Prosecutor' and he was put on trial at Branch One of Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court. But due to his lack of mental balance and upon request by his court-appointed lawyer, his trial was delayed for several weeks. Eventually, on 14 October 2011, during a minutes-long trial session in the presence of a court-appointed lawyer, the Prosecutor's representative, and a representative from Orumiyeh Intelligence office, he was sentenced to death on charges of 'moharebeh (enmity with God) through effective cooperation with PJAK and participation in the murder of Khoy Prosecutor.' In a separate case for 'possession of a rifle' that never existed, he was also sentenced to an additional 10 years in prison. After his court-appointed lawyer appealed the decision, the case has been forwarded to the Supreme Court. This political prisoner's health conditions are reported as serious and due to the sensitivity of his case, prison authorities have refused to transfer him to a hospital outside the prison," the source told the Campaign.

According the local source, immediately after his arrest, Alakhani was transferred to the Salmas Intelligence Office Detention Center , and after two days, he was transferred to the Orumiyeh Intelligence Office Detention Center. On the third day of his arrest, security forces stormed the Kurdish citizen's home and after searching the premises took several of his personal items with them. Eyewitnesses told the local source that security forces that security forces closed down all the streets leading to the house for several hours, creating an atmosphere of fear and intimidation in the neighborhood.

The source told the Campaign that during Alakhani's close to 19 months in Salmas, Khoy, and Orumiyeh detention centers, he has been subjected to the most severe psychological and physical torture. During this time, despite his family's appeal to Salmas and Orumiyeh judicial and security organizations, no responses have been provided to them about Alakhani.

"After 19 months, this young Kurdish man was transferred to the Orumiyeh Central Prison. Because the political prisoner was in a poor psychological shape and evidence of torture was visible on his body, on orders from Orumiyeh Intelligence Office, he was transferred to the ward where drug-related criminals are kept," the local source told the Campaign.

22-Apr-2012
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