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Tehran, 30 Dec. (AKI) - Amid rising tension in
Iranian Kurdistan, prisoners in Urumieh prison in
western Iran are rioting over the imminent hanging
of one of their fellow detainees - a Kurd named
Massoud Shokkehi - and the hanging in recent days of
another Kurd being held in Sagghez prison, also in
Iranian Kurdistan. A total 51 Kurdish militants have
been summoned to appear before the Revolutionary
court in Sanandaj, accused of sedition. They face
the death penalty if convicted.
On Thursday, violent protests broke out when police
officers came to take Shokkehi away for execution,
together with another Kurdish prisoner, Salah
Mohammadi Guylani, being held in another prison.
Shokkehi had been in Urumieh for nine years.
A young Iranian Kurd was hanged in Sagghez on
Wednesday. Farhad Salehpour, 19, was arrested some
12 months ago and sentenced to death for killing a
Islamist militiaman. A member of a separatist
Kurdish group, Salepour spent eleven months in
Sagghez on death row before being executed. Also on
Wednesday, four more Kurds who allegedly took part
in unrest earlier this year were re-arrested. They
had been released conditionally earlier this month.
There have been violent protests in many cities in
Iranian Kurdistan in recent months, and the
situation remains tense.
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