IranHRM October 29, 2017:<\/a> The plain cloths of Iranian intelligence minister assaulted, harassed and verbally abused the parents of Kurdish political prisoner Ramin Hussein Panahi as they arrived in Sanandaj, capital of Iranian Kurdistan Province on October 29, 2017.<\/p>\nThey were referring to the regime\u2019s Intelligence Office to ask for their son\u2019s whereabouts and protest to his imminent execution.
\nThe intelligence agents told the couple that even God cannot save their son and he will be executed soon.
\nThe parents were also threatened that if they are not silent, their whole family will be arrested and executed.
\nOn October 26, the Iranian Regime\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence, addressing the family member of a political prisoner after 124 days, announced that he has been detained by the Ministry and will be executed soon.
\nThe political prisoner, Ramin Hossein Panahi, was arrested on June 23, 2017, after being shot by three bullets by the Revolutionary Guards and transferred to un unknown location. Shortly after, he was transferred to the Intelligence detention center and underwent torture and interrogation while still wounded.
\nEventually, after releasing no news about the fate of this political prisoner for four months and his family\u2019s frequent pursuit, the Ministry of Intelligence told Ramin\u2019s mother and sister that he was arrested by the ministry.
\nThey told his family: \u201cHe will not be transferred to anywhere else, and he will not be allowed to have visits and you should just wait to receive the news about his execution and burial at.
\nAccording to reports, after this news, Ramin\u2019s mother collapsed and fell unconscious and transferred to the hospital.
\nAccording to another report, Ramin\u2019s brother, Afshin Hossein Panahi, was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison by the regime\u2019s judiciary in the city of Sanandaj. The civil activist, who has a history of cooperation with environmental institutions, has been sentenced on charges of holding the Nowruz ceremony and cooperating with a Kurdish party.
\nAfshin Hussein Panahi was arrested on June 26 this year after his brother, Ramin, was arrested in his house.<\/p>\n
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