The daughter of Rezgâr Beigzadeh Babamiri, a Kurdish political prisoner held in Urmia Prison, announced that he has been sentenced to death. Beigzadeh Babamiri was arrested for participating in the nationwide uprising of 2022 in the city of Bukan and for providing medicine and medical aid to those injured during the violent crackdown on protests.
Zhino Beigzadeh Babamiri wrote in a post on her X (formerly Twitter) account on Thursday, July 3: “Dad was sentenced to death.”
She did not specify the charges against her father or the court that issued the sentence, but earlier reports had indicated that Rezgâr Beigzadeh Babamiri had been charged with “baghi” (armed rebellion against the state) in the Revolutionary Court.
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Earlier, in February 2025, Babamiri had been sentenced to 15 years in prison by Branch One of the Criminal Court in Urmia, in another part of his case, on the charge of “complicity in murder” during the 2022 protests.
According to the verdict, in this part of the case, Pejman Soltani, another political prisoner, was sentenced to death for the charge of “ordering the killing of a security officer,” and Ali Ghasemi was sentenced to 10 years in prison for “complicity in murder.” The fourth defendant, Kaveh Salehi, was acquitted of the charges against him.
Later, on May 12, Babamiri’s daughter wrote on X that the 15-year prison sentence for her father had been upheld in full by the Appeals Court of West Azerbaijan Province.
At the time, she emphasized that her father “was arrested solely for providing humanitarian aid to the wounded” and wrote: “None of the basic rights of an accused person have been respected, even according to the Iranian regime’s own minimal laws.”
The 47-year-old farmer is the father of three children—the youngest of whom was only two years old at the time of his arrest.
On April 25, 2025, Babamiri wrote a letter from Urmia Prison detailing the torture he endured at the Intelligence Ministry detention centers in the cities of Bukan and Urmia. He stressed that his only “crime” was helping fellow human beings during the protests.
In the letter, Babamiri wrote that during 130 days of detention and interrogation, he was subjected to “specialized torture,” including induced suffocation (using water and a bag over his head), mock executions (hanging and firing squad), electric shocks to sensitive areas of his body, and continuous sleep deprivation.
In recent months, the rising number of executions, as well as the issuance and confirmation of death sentences against political prisoners in Iran, has sparked a wave of protests both inside and outside the country.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) had previously called on all international bodies and the United Nations Human Rights Council to condemn these crimes and hold Iran’s regime accountable.
