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Family members of Kurdish prisoners in
Iran express their concern about planned executions
30.9.2009
By Loghman H. Ahmedi and ekurd.net staff
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September 30, 2009
SANANDAJ (Sina), Iranian Kurdistan, —
In an open letter the Association of Family Members
of Kurdish Prisoners express their concern about
planned executions of Kurdish prisoners in Snne
(Sanandaj). Different sources in Iranian Kurdistan
has claimed that the head of the judiciary branch of
the Islamic Republic have sent a secret letter to
its officials in Snne demanding that all political
prisoners in the city be executed within a couple of
days, after that a number of the regimes officials
was assassinated. |
Loghman H. Ahmedi |
The regime has in different statements blamed
different Kurdish and Islamist organisations for the
assassinations, but no known group has taken
responsibility for the assassinations. Iranian and
Kurdish media reported that an previously unknown
group,www.ekurd.netcalled
Leshkeri Peshmergei Kurdistan, took responsibility
for the some of the assassinations but the group
later stated in an press release that they had
nothing to do with the assassinations.
All of the known Kurdish political organisations
have stated that they are not responsible for the
assassinations in Snne. Many of the Kurdish
organisations are blaming the Islamic Republic for
the assassinations, believing that the regime is
attempting to eliminate its own officials in order
to have a pretext to crack down on Kurdish political
activists.
The Association of Family Members of Kurdish
Prisoners express concern about the resent events
and calls the growing military presence in Snne a
conspiracy, linking it to the assassinations. The
organisation states that the ever increasing number
of Kurds being detained for alleged participation in
the assassinations is worrisome, but they state that
what is more dangerous is the decision of the head
of the judiciary to execute Kurdish political
prisoners.
Furthermore, the Kurdish organization states that
the regimes decision to sentence Habib Latifi, a
26-year-old university student, and Ehsan Ftahyan a
22-year-old Kurd to death, are evidence to the
decision of the head of the judiciary to start
executing Kurdish political prisoners. In the final
sentence of the letter the Kurdish organisation
writes that the Kurdish people have in different
periods of history shown that they will stand up
against injustice and that they will not be silenced
and that they are ready to sacrifice their blood and
die to struggle against oppression.
Fifteen political prisoners
to be executed in the next fifteen days
Islamic regime ordered the revolutionary court in
Kurdistan province, in two weeks fifteen political
prisoners to be executed.
The Kurdish news websites have been published.
Fourteen names of political prisoners as follows:
1- Ramazan Ahmed
2- Farhad Chalesh
3- Sherko Marafi
4- Rostam Narkia
5- Farzad Kamangar
6- Ali Haydarian
7- Farhad Vakili
8- Hiwa Botimar
9- Anwar Hosain Panahi
10- Habiballa Lotfi
11- Fasih Basamani
12- Arsalan Awlyaie
13- Ms:Zaynab Jalalian
14- Ehsan Fatahian
Human Rights Watch recently
published a new report in 2009 detailing the repression of Iran's
Kurdish population by the Iranian government in Iranian Kurdistan (Eastern
Kurdistan). In this report,www.ekurd.netthe Human Rights Watch strongly criticizes Iranian
government for violating human rights and freedom of expression in Kurdistan.
Kurds make up approximately 7 percent of the population and live mainly in the
northwest regions of the country.
In a report released in July 2008, the human rights
organisation, Amnesty International
expressed concern
about the increased repression of Kurdish Iranians,
particularly human rights defenders.
The report cited examples of religious and cultural
discrimination against the estimated 12 million
Kurds who live in Iran.
Loghman H. Ahmedi is the Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan’s representative to the United Kingdom.
Ahmedi maintains a blog at
www.loghmanahmedi.com
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greater parts of West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan
Province, Kermanshah Province, and Ilam Province.
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