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Karaj; Sending Erkan Palani, a prisoner of conscience, on leave

10:55 - 1/7/2022

Karaj; Sending Erkan Palani, a prisoner of conscience, on leave

Hana; On Thursday, June 30, 2022, a Kurdish prisoner of conscience named "Erkan Palani Jaf" from Sarpol Zahab, Kermanshah province, was sent on leave with the consent of Rajaei prison officials in Karaj.

 

It is necessary to remember that on Friday June 25, 2022,  he went on a dry strike in protest against being deprived of parole and being sent on leave and medical treatment. He was transferred to Rajaei Shahr Prison Hospital in Karaj on June 25, 2022. Erkan Palani Jaf, who went on strike by sewing his lips, was beaten by prison officers on the 12th day of the strike. It is necessary to remind that on September 3, 2017, he was arrested by the security forces in Tehran and after 3 months of interrogation in 209 Evin Detention Centers in Tehran and Kermanshah Oil Field, he was transferred to Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj. Erkan Palani Jaff was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison by the 28th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court headed by Judge "Maqiseh" on the charge of "acting against national security" through cooperation with ISIS, which some time ago after the approval of the court With his request for leave, who is in the fifth year of his imprisonment, his family prepared several village documents and went to the Tehran court, but each time the court refused to issue a proxy order for bail.