HRANA News Agency – Yousef (Mostafa) Kakehmamie, political prisoner in Urmia prison, has been sentenced to 5 years imprisonment, on charge of sending a letter to the Special Rapporteur of UN and holding contact with the media, from inside the prison.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, in Urmia, has convicted Yousef Kakemamie to 5 years imprisonment, on charges of propaganda against the regime, gathering and colluding with intention to harm the national security.
These charges were made based on this prisoner’s contact with the media, broadcasting, mailing, including sending a letter to Ahmad Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran.
The verdict was communicated to the prisoner, while there are only seven months left of his previous sentence of 9 years of imprisonment, he was supposed to be released in August this year.
A person close to Mr. Kakemamie said; “he had no lawyer at any stage of his trial and was held for a long time in the solitary confinement of the intelligence office in Urmia, under interrogation and pressure, and during the interrogation and in the court, he has denied all the accusations.”
Yousef Kakemamie was transferred to the solitary confinement in the Ministry of Intelligence in Urmia, in June last year, and on 23^rd July, on charges of propaganda against the regime and communicating with foreign media, he was summoned to the court in Urmia. The warren was delivered to Urmia prison, while he was in solitary confinement of the Ministry of Intelligence.
Yousef Kakemamie, citizen of Mahabad was arrested in 2007, and was charged with connection and collaborating with the PKK, and sentenced to 9 years imprisonment. He is now in ward 12 of Urmia prison.