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Twenty eight Kurdish prisoners sentenced
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August 13, 2012
ORUMIYEH/SANANDAJ, Iranian Kurdistan,—
According to research, conducted by the
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran,
there are currently at least 28 Kurdish prisoners
sentenced to death on political and security-related
charges inside Sanandaj, Orumiyeh, Semnan, Rajaee
Shahr, and Saghez prisons in Iranian Kurdistan
(eastern Kurdistan). Seventeen of these individuals
have received finalized death sentences and 11 have
been sentenced to death at their trials in lower
courts, and are now awaiting appeals rulings by the
Supreme Court.
While some of the individuals in this list have
received prior media coverage, information about
many of these prisoners has been limited due to
limitations security forces impose on the prisoners’
families and the unprecedented restrictions on human
rights activists to disseminate information within
an increasingly repressed social and political
atmosphere. However, the Campaign has obtained
information about 17 Kurdish prisoners through their
lawyers and families.
The list also includes 10 individuals the Iranian
Judiciary claims are affiliated with Salafist
religious groups, and who have been sentenced to
death by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court for
“participating in armed confrontations.” The names
and backgrounds of these individuals are listed at
the end of this report.
Additionally, family members of three other
prisoners, Fakhreddin Faraji, Changiz Ghadamkheir,
and Shouresh Rezaei, who were arrested during armed
confrontations have been informed of charges of
“moharebeh” and according to local activists, their
families are concerned that they may be facing death
sentences.
The Campaign’s research indicates that in many of
the referenced cases, due process has not been
observed, the suspects have not had access to
lawyers, and their statements during the process
have not been noted. In some of the cases,www.ekurd.net
the suspects have claimed that they were physically
abused and tortured during the interrogations.
According to families of some of the suspects who
have made such claims, some through writing letters
from prison, the Judiciary has not launched
independent investigations to review the claims.
The Campaign asks the Iranian Judiciary to launch an
independent investigation into the claims of
suspects who have stated that their actions
regarding their charges were carried out under
pressure and physical and psychological torture, and
to release the results of their investigations to
the public opinion. The Campaign also urges the
Judiciary to review the sentences in order to ensure
the legality of the judicial and sentencing process.
Names of individuals sentenced to death are: 1)
Habibollah Latifi, 2) Rashid Akhkandi, 3) Mostafa
Salimi, 4), Shirkoo Moarefi, 5) Habibollah
Golparipour, 6) Zanyar Moradi, and 7) Loghman Moradi.
Additionally, ten others tried in one case on
charges of “membership in a Salafist religious
group” have been sentenced to death and their
sentences have been upheld.
Names of the 11 individuals who have been sentenced
to death and are awaiting the appeals court decision
are: 1) Samkoo Khorshidi, 2) Sirvan Nazhavi, 3)
Ebrahim Isapur, 4) Razgar (Habib) Afshari, 5) Ali
Afshari, 6) Houshang Rezaei, 7) Reza Esmaeeli, 8)
Behrouz Alkhani, 9) Seyed Sami Hosseini, 10) Seyed
Jamal Mohammadi, and 11) Bakhtiar Memari.
The Campaign believes that the number of individuals
who have received death sentences may be more than
the individuals reflected on this list, as it is
possible that due to limitations in research and
information gathering, the list may not be complete.
Therefore, local activists and individuals who are
aware of other cases of death sentences for Kurdish
citizens on political and security charges are urged
to send their information to the Campaign to
complete the existing information.
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