Iran: Fear of torture or ill-treatment/Medical concern: Hasan Hikmet Demir, or Hassan Hekmat Damir (m)

Index Number: MDE 13/051/2007
Date Published: 3 May 2007
Categories: Iran, Middle East And North Africa

Kurdish opposition party member Hasan Hikmet Demir, also known as Agit, a Turkish national, reportedly escaped in April from the prison where he had been detained for over a year. He was recaptured and is now reportedly in solitary confinement in a Ministry of Intelligence detention facility in Orumieh, in the north-western province of Western Azerbaijan, where he is at risk of torture and ill-treatment.