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Tehran, 7 Dec. (AKI) - The death of a young
Kurdish man in a police station in Sanandaj, the
capital of Iranian Kurdistan, has triggered new
clashes between locals and police in other
Kurdish-majority villages and cities. Last Sunday,
Pouya Ebrahimabadi, 22, was arrested in the centre
of Sanandaj, during police raids against venues
frequented by nationalists.
The friends and relatives of the dead man told the
Iranian site Khabar that Pouya was tortured for
hours during interrogation, before being transferred
in critical condition to a local hospital. He died
several hours later.
The Sanandaj police offers a diferent version.
Commander general Rahim Khorshidvand argues that
Pouya, who they say was arrested with several grams
of hashish in his pocket, took his life in a holding
cell before being interrogated.
"The defendant died several hours later in hospital,
where we had transferred him immediately" he said.
The young separatists in Sanandaj are awaiting the
restitution of the corpse of Pouya to hold his
funeral, in what will become a new anti-regime
protest.
Iranian Kurdistan is in the northwest of the
country, along the borders of Iraq and Turkey. The
Kurdish people say they are denied their rights as
an ethnic minotiry, especially the right to be
educated in their own language.
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