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Iran: Security forces cover up death by
torture of a young Kurd
25.1.2008
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January 25, 2008
Göttingen, -- The Society for Threatened
Peoples (GfbV) was shocked to learn of the death of
Ibrahim Lutfullahi (Ebrahim Lotfollahi), a Kurdish
student from the Kurdish province of Kurdistan. He
died in the middle of January in the Kurdish-Iranian
town of Sanandaj after being arrested on 6th January
by the Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guard) on the way
home from university. “His family assumes that he
was tortured to death in custody”, said K. Sido,
Near-east correspondent of the GfbV.
The exact time of his death is unknown. On 15th
January the parents received a message from an
office of the Ministry for the Secret Service (MOIS)
in Sanandaj that they should collect the corpse of
their son. But then the body was buried before the
parents arrived so that signs of torture could no
longer be proved. “This behaviour is in cases in
which the real cause of death is to be held back by
the Pasdaran from the parents of the prisoner no
rarity”, said Sido. |
Ebrahim Lotfollahi, Iranian Kurdish student died in
prison in Iranian Kurdistan. |
Other sources reported,
Mr. Ebrahim Lotfollahi, a Kurdish law student,
died in the prison
of Sanandaj, in Iran’s Kurdish northwestern region
(Iranian Kurdistan), on January 15th, 2008. Mr
Lotfollahi was arrested, for unknown reasons, on
January 6th, 2008. According to the Iranian
authorities,www.ekurd.net
Mr. Lotfollahi committed
suicide,
however, his family, who had visited him a few days
prior to his death, claims that he was then in good
spirits. Mr. Lotfollahi was burried without the
autorisation from his family who had requested in
vain for
an autopsy to
be conducted.
Background information:
In the state of Iran, which is peopled by many
ethnic groups, there live apart from Persians, also
Aseri, Kurds, Arabs, Beluchi, Turkmens,www.ekurd.net
Assyro-Aramaeans and
other smaller ethnic and religious minorities. The
non-Persians make up much more than half of the
total population. As independent peoples with their
own languages, cultures and history they are not
recognized, but deliberately termed “ethnic groups”.
They all suffer from suppression and discrimination.
The area inhabited by the Kurds in Iran covers the
four provinces of Kermanshah, Llam, Western
Aserbaidjan and Kurdistan in the west of the country
and has with its 10 million inhabitants a total area
of 125,000 sq.km. Nearly 98% of the Kurds in Iran
see themselves as Muslims. 75% of them are Sunnis
and 25% Shiites. Human rights, democracy and
regional self-government for the Kurds in a
democratic federal Iran – that is the declared aim
of the Kurdish political parties in Iran.
The Pasdaran, known as the Revolutionary Guard of
the Islamist Revolution, is an Iranian military
organisation, which was founded by the revolutionary
leader Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. They became one
of the most important institutions of Iran and have
the task of combating critics of the Islamist
Republic at home and abroad. They also commit
political murders in Europe. In this way Dr. Abdul
Rahman Ghassemlou, head of the Democratic party of
Kurdistan,www.ekurd.net
was killed by their
members or at their behest on 13th July 1989 in
Vienna. The so-called Mykonos attack of 17th
September 1992, in which four Kurdish-Iranian exile
politicians were killed, is presumed to have been
carried out by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
GFBV- gfbv de | Agencies
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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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