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Iran: Kurdish student activist Ebrahim
Lotfollahi dies in police custody
18.1.2008
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January 18, 2008
Sanandaj, Iranian Kurdistan,-- A Kurdish
student has died in custody at the Iranian
intelligence ministry's detention centre in Sanandaj
where he was taken after his arrest ten days ago.
Ebrahim Lotfollahi was a well known activist from
Payam Nour University in Sanandaj, capital of the
Iranian province of
Kurdistan.
The parents of Ebrahim who saw him for the last time
after his arrest on Wednesday last week told the
media that "the boy
showed evident signs of torture and abuse". |
Ebrahim Lotfollahi, Iranian Kurdish student died in
prison in Iranian Kurdistan. |
As soon as news spread about his death, dozens of
students gathered at his university campus.
The students blame Ebrahim's death on Mehdi Molavali,
from the office of the intelligence ministry, who
reportedly conducts
interrogations of political detainees and is said to
use violence to obtain confessions.
On January 14, the Iranian
security forces have
arrested the parents of two
leaders of the Kurdish student movement.
Fatemeh Ghoftari, mother of Yasser Gholi, a Kurdish
student arrested three months ago,www.ekurd.net
was arrested in Sandandaj in Iranian Kurdistan on Monday morning by
two agents from the ministry of intelligence.
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Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) or Rojhilatź
Kurdistan (East of Kurdistan)) is an unofficial name
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
Province, Kermanshah Province, and Ilam Province.
Kurds form the majority of the population of this
region with an estimated population of 4 million.
The region is the eastern part of the greater
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The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Kurdish
(Hīzbī Dźmokiratī Kurdistanī Źran) is a Kurdish
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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The present leader of the organisation is Haji
Ahmadi. According to the Washington Times, half the
members of PEJAK are women, many of them still in
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
women must have a strong role in government and must
be on an equal level with men in leadership
positions.
Since 2004
The Iranian Kurdish rebel group PJAK (PEJAK) (Party
of Free Life of Kurdistan) took up
arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdistan
province northwestern of Iran. Half the members of
PEJAK are women.
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