March 21, 2008
Mariwan, Iranian Kurdistan, -- A young
Kurdish journalist Hiwa Boutimar has been condemned
to death in Iran for the second time.
Iran's supreme court has
upheld a death
sentence against the Kurdish journalist Hiwa
Boutimar on espionage charges but overturned that
against Adnan Hassanpur,www.ekurd.net
in November 2007.
Hiwa Boutimar, a Kurdish journalist and
environmental activist, received the death penalty
after a second trial failed to acquit him.
Hiwa, who received the City of Siena-Isf award for
freedom of information in Italy in November last
year, was condemned to death for the first time last
July.
An international campaign which began in Italy and
extended throughout Europe forced Iran's Judicial
Authority to cancel the first verdict. |
Kurdish journalists
Adnan Hassanpur (L) and Hiwa Botimar sentenced to death
by the Iranian Islamic regime. Hiwa Boutimar has
been condemned to death in Iran for the second time. |
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