A Kurdish political prisoner from Piranshahr, East Kurdistan is deprived of his right to conditional release and freedom. After more than two decades in prison and torture by security officials, he suffered from heart disease, osteoporosis and paralysis.
He was arrested in June of 1991 in Targavar area of the city of Urmia and was later sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Islamic State of Iran on charges of being a member of a Kurdish opposition party in Iran. In late 2013, after spending 23 years of his life in prison, the Urmia Revolutionary Court Branch, presided over by Judge Chabak, decided to commute Osman Mustafapour's prison sentence to 35 years in prison.
The Iranian judiciary extended his sentence by 10 years in prison for fighting with the Revolutionary Guards.
Osman was denied the right to parole during his imprisonment period and the judiciary and the security center did not even allow him to participate in the funerals of his relatives and family members.
In a letter written in the year 2013 to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Osman Mustafapour called on Human Rights Watch, the international community and all freedom fighters and conscientious objectors around the world to investigate the trial and the waste of twenty years of his youth in the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and asked not to allow the other youth of the country to waste their youth on claims and propaganda.
Osman Mustafapour passed away on #07-09-2021# after contracting the coronavirus disease.[1]