Pejman Toubreh Rizi

Pejman Toubreh Rizi

 

Pejman Toubreh Rizi is a 31-year-old Kurdish political prisoner from Kermanshah who was arrested in Tehran on 28 January 2025. According to reports, he was subjected to torture including electric shocks and severe beatings in both police custody and Ward 209 of Evin Prison where he was transferred to after two days and where he was detained for weeks without access to medical care. In further efforts to pressure him into making self-incriminating confessions, his family’s home was raided by Ministry of Intelligence agents On 13 July 2025, seizing phones; during the raid his cancer-stricken stepmother, Fariba Ahmadi, suffered a fatal heart attack. During his trial held at Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court on 26 July and 15 August 2025, he was asked by the judge to accept the charges and cooperate with the Ministry of Intelligence in exchange for exile to Saravan Prison and to sign a death sentence, which he refused on both occasions. 

CHARGES: Efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth) through membership of the PMOI/MEK

STATUS: Sentenced to death by Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court on 1 September 2025. He is currently held in Evin Prison.