Adnan Hassanpour (Persian: عدنان حسن پور) is an Iranian-Kurdish journalist who was sentenced to death in Iran in 2007 and reversed a year later.
[3] In April 2007, after being held for four months in detention, without access to a lawyer, Hassanpour was charged by Revolutionary Court prosecutors with "espionage", "acting against national security", and "active armed resistance against the state", which is punishable by death under Iran's Islamic Penal Code.
[4] According to his lawyer, Sirvan Houshmand, "the legal case against Hassanpour rests purely on evidence from interrogation reports obtained during his detention," lacking any other corroborating evidence, and interrogators in Iranian prisons, (according to human rights groups), "routinely subject detainees to physical and psychological ill-treatment to obtain coerced confessions.
[13] In April 2007, after being held for four months in detention, without access to a lawyer, Hassanpour was charged by Revolutionary Court prosecutors with "espionage", "acting against national security", and "active armed resistance against the state" (moharebeh), which is punishable by death under Iran's penal code.
[4] The revolutionary court in the city of Marivan condemned Hassanpour to execution solely based on interrogation reports produced by the Ministry of Intelligence.
He was serving his sentence behind bars in Sanandaj prison, deprived of his legal right to furlough, without a single hour of release during these years.