Rostam Arkia released from Yazd prison

HRANA News Agency – Rostam Arkia, an exiled political prisoner from Mako, was conditionally released from Yazd Prison on Wednesday, March 8.

According to HRANA news agency, citing the Kurdistan Center for Democracy and Human Rights, on Wednesday, March 8, 2021, Rostam Arkia, a political prisoner from Mako, was released from Yazd prison.

Mr. Arkia's release has been conditional.

He was previously sent on leave from this prison in November of this year and returned to Yazd Prison some time later.

Rostam Arkia was arrested by security forces in Tehran on January 2, 2006, and transferred to the IRGC Intelligence Detention Center in Urmia.

This political prisoner was sentenced to death on December 25, 2008, by the Khoy Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Norouzi, on charges of war through collaboration with one of the opposition parties. After a protest in February 2009, this sentence was reduced by the appeals court to 10 years in prison with exile to Yazd prison.

However, the representative of the Urmia prosecutor objected to this verdict and requested an increase in the sentence, and as a result, on March 17, 2009, the sentence was increased from 10 to 20 years in prison.

Mr. Arkia, who was denied the right to a lawyer during the trial, was deported to Yazd Prison in June 2020.

Source: HRANA