Kurds in Iran under sentence of death – May 2010

1. Ms. Zeynab Jalaliyan
2. Ehsan Fattahian – executed 11 November 2009
3. Habib Latifi
4. Shirkuh Moarefi
5. Ramezan Ahmad
6. Farha Chalesh
7. Rostam Arkiya
8. Fazih Yasamini – executed 6 January 2010
9. Rashid Akhkandi
10. Ali Heydariyan – executed 9 May 2010
11. Farhad Vakili – executed 9 May 2010
12. Hossein Khazari
13. Farzad Kamangar – executed 9 May 2010
14. Mohammad Amin Agushi
15. Ahmad Pouladkhani
16. Saeed Sami Hosseini
17. Saeed Jamel Mohammadi
18. Mostafa Salimi
19. Anwar Rostami
20. Hassan Talai
21. Iraj Mohammadi
22. Shirin Alam- Houli – executed 9 May 2010
23. Mehdi Eslamian – executed 9 May 2010
24. Ghader Mohamadzadeh
25. Aziz Mohammadzadeh

40 Swedish members of parliament signed a petition to lift the death sentences against the Kurds in Eastern Kurdistan (Iran)

Rescind the death sentence against the Kurdish activists!  Developments in Iran since the election in June 2009 have been changeble.  In the Kurdish area in which a state of emergency exists, the Iranian regime has grown even more repressive. The Kurdish people have the highest number of death row political prisoners.

In Iran, there are currently thirteen Kurdish students, and civil and political activists awaiting death sentences that have been issued by Iran’s judiciary. They are accused of threatening national security or being an “enemy of God”, and so for being a dissident. Read more