Kurdish political prisoners in Iran under sentence of death – update
We are advised that the current list of people sentenced to death in Iran for being Kurdish and promoting the Kurdish issue (also known as moharebeh, or “enmity against God,”) are:
1. Zeyneb Celalyan
2. Hebibollah Letifi
3. Hebibollah Golperi Pur
4. Reshid Axkendi
5. Sherko Mearifi
6. Mostefa Selimi
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8. Anwer Rostemi
9. Seid Cemal Mohemedi
10. Seid Sami Hoseini
11. Eziz Mohemed Zade
12. Abdullah Siruryan
13. Zanyar Muradi
14. Luqman Muradi
15. Mohamed Amin Agushi
16. Irec Mohemedi
17. Ehmed Pulad Xani
Some people on the original lists have had their sentences communted.
Others have been executed:
Ehsan Fattahian – executed 11 November 2009
Fazih Yasamini – executed 6 January 2010
Ali Heydariyan – executed 9 May 2010
Farhad Vakili – executed 9 May 2010
Farzad Kamangar – executed 9 May 2010
Shirin Alam- Houli – executed 9 May 2010
Mehdi Eslamian – executed 9 May 2010
Husein Xiziri – executed 15 January 2011
6 January 2011
http://supportkurds.org/reports/kurds-in-iran-under-sentence-of-death-may-2010/
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See also the report from Kurdish Info:
BDP launched a signature campaign for Kurdish political prisoners:
Hebibullah Letifi,
Rustem Arkiya,
Zeyneb Celaliyan,
Enwer Rustemi,
Seyd Sami Huseyni,
Seyd Cemal Muhammedi,
Hebibullah Gulperipur,
Þerko Maarfi,
Mustafa Selimi Eyluyi,
Muhammed Emin Aguþi,
Reþîd Axkendî,
Ahmed Puladxanî ,
Hasan Talî,
Îrec Mihemedi,
Muhammed Emin Abdullahi,
Qadir Muhammedzade and
Eziz Muhammedzade,
who are condemned to death in Iran.
A number of international human rights institutions, International Amnesty in particular, documented that Kurdish political prisoners, who were condemned to death with the allegation of being PJAK members and hence “battling” (opposing God), were exposed to torture during the imprisonment process, not tried under legal circumstances as they had no right for self-defense at the court and most of them weren’t even given the right to hire a lawyer.
The statement of the signature campaign was as follows; “Some of the people in question, law school students Hebibullah Letifi and Hüseyin Xezri for instance, faced this accusation due to their civil political acts, only. 8 family members of Hebibullah Letifi, whose execution was declared for 26 December Sunday but later suspended to an undetermined date, were detained arbitrarily during the home raid on 26 December at evening hours.
Considering that the executions of prisoners in similar cases were carried out secretly, the arbitrary detentions in question create anxiety about the possibility of executions of Hebibullah Letifi and other Kurdish political prisoners in the near future.
Having signed below, we, as individuals wishing a free and humanely life for all peoples in this geography, condemn the executions of people due to their political opinions and demand the immediate withdrawal of the executions and the liberation of relatives of prisoners detained arbitrarily”.
The signatures collected in this campaign will be given to Iran Embassy by BDP.
The Kurdish political prisoner Mr. Hussein Xiziri who is sentenced to death is at imminent risk of execution, report said on Sunday. The prison officials of Urmiye Detention transferred Mr. Xiziri to an unknown place this afternoon.
His family and fellow prisoners have raised concern that the prison officials have taken him out of his cell to carry out his execution. Mr. Xiziri is a 28 year old Kurdish prisoner of conscious who has been convicted of being the “enemy of God” for his political views.
3 January 2011
http://www.kurdish-info.eu/News-sid-URGENT-call-for-prisoners-in-Iran–16024.html
