July 25, 2007
PARIS, July 25, -- A global press freedoms
watchdog urged the international community Wednesday
to intervene to stop the execution of two Kurdish
journalists sentenced to death in Iran.
According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Adnan
Hassanpur and Abdolvahed "Hiva" Botimar were
sentenced to death on July 16 by a revolutionary
court in Marivan, in Iran's eastern Kurdistan
region.
Both wrote for the magazine Aso (Horizons), before
it was banned in August 2005.
Hassanpur, who published several articles on the
sensitive issue of Kurdistan and gave interviews to
foreign media including Voice of America, was found
guilty of espionage and "subverting national
security". |
Kurdish journalists
Adnan Hassanpur and Hiva Botimar sentenced to death
by the Iranian Islamic regime |
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