March
9, 2010
TEHRAN, —
Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani Monday urged
Germany to hand over the captured leader of the
outlawed Iranian Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK),
the semi- official ISNA news agency reported.
German security forces arrested the ringleader,
Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi, and two senior members of
PJAK in Germany, the local Fars news agency reported
on Sunday.
"He (Haji Ahmadi) must be handed over to Iran to be
tried," Larijani was quoted as saying by ISNA.
"The diplomatic efforts are underway and it (the
delivery of Haji Ahmadi to Iran) should be done,"
Larijani added.
Iran was recently negotiating with Germany to arrest
Haji Ahmadi as he had committed a lot of crimes in
Iran and was residing there, he said, adding that
the German officials said that they were following
the issue.
Iran's western provinces have been the hotbed of
regular armed clashes between Iranian security
forces and Kurdish militant parties,www.ekurd.netin
particular separatist PJAK, an anti-Iranian Iraqi-
based Kurdish group linked to Turkey's outlawed
Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK).
The PJAK, or the (Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistane) (Party of Free Life of
Kurdistan), is a militant Kurdish nationalist group based in northern Iraq that
has been carrying out attacks Iranian revolutionary guards in the Kurdistan Province of Iran
(Eastern Kurdistan) and other Kurdish-inhabited areas. |
Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani
Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi, leader of the
Iranian Party for a Free Life of Kurdistan, or PJAK
detained in Germany |
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