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Iran: Two Kurds were hanged in Iranian
Kurdistan
13.10.2007
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October
13, 2007
Sanandaj, Iranian Kurdistan, -- Two Iranians,
Kiumars and Nader Mohammadi have been hanged in
Iran's northwestern Kurdistan province, authorities
announced on Friday.
The two young men's families were told that they
were buried in the cemetery of Behesht Mohammed in
the city of Sanandaj, about 500 kilometres from the
capital Tehran.
The families were asked not to organise any public
ceremony of remembrance to avoid these turning into
an anti-regime protest.
Kiumars and Mohammadi were hanged on Wednesday -
World Day Against the Death Penalty.
In 2006 Iran carried out the second highest number
of death sentences, most of them by hanging. It was
surpassed only by Iran.
Excluding the hangings of Kiumars and Mohammadi, 265
executions took place in Iran between October 2006
and the end of September 2007.
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for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has
borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes the
greater parts of West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan
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Kurds form the majority of the population of this
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opposition group in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks
the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a
democratic federal republic of Iran.
The current
General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan is Mustafa Hijri
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their teens, and one of the female members of the
leadership council is Gulistan Dugan, a psychology
graduate from the University of Tehran. This is due
primarily to the fact that PEJAK is strongly
supportive of women's rights. PEJAK believes that
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