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International appeal for HOSSEIN KHEZRI Kurdish political prisoner in Iran
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URGENT ACTION! A prisoner of conscience on death row has been transferred to an unknown location: Hossein Khezri has been transferred to an undisclosed location and is at imminent risk of execution – January 02, 2011
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reports that on January 2, 2011, the Intelligence agents went to the Orumyieh Central prison and transferred Kurdish Iranian Hossein Khezri to an undisclosed location. Mr. Xiziri (Kurdish spelling) is a 28 year old Kurdish prisoner of conscience who has been convicted of being the “enemy of God” for his political views.
In November 2010, HRANA announced in a report that branch 9 of the Execution of Sentences Court in Orumieyh had sent Hossein Khezri’s case to the Provincial Attorney General. With the consent of the Attorney General, the risk of execution of Hossein Khezri is imminent. Read more
KHRP and Amnesty International have grave concerns about Iran’s impending executions of Kurdish Political Prisoners
Amnesty International has made a new call to the Iranian authorities to immediately halt all executions and commute all death sentences as concern grows about two women and other prisoners who may be at imminent risk of execution. The organization is also urging the authorities to review and repeal death penalty laws, to disclose full details of all death sentences and executions, and to join the growing international trend towards abolition.
Two women are feared to be at imminent risk of execution. Zeynab Jalalian, a political activist and member of the Kurdish minority , was sentenced to death in early 2009 after being convicted of “enmity against God”, while Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, whose conviction of “adultery while being married” was upheld in May 2007, could be executed by stoning at any time.
Prisoners on death row are often not informed when they are due to be executed until the last minute, adding to their suffering and that of their families. Sometimes their lawyers are not informed 48 hours in advance, as is required by Iranian law. Read more
A 14-Year Old Girl Killed and 65 Families Fled in Iranian Shelling of Kurdistan
A 14-year old girl, Basoz Jabar Agha, was killed Sunday morning as a result of Iranian artillery bombardment of the border region between Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan, according to the officials of the Kurdistan Regional Government(KRG).
Rudaw reporter said that the Iranian forces shelled the Kurdish regions of Haji Omeran, Ibrahim Shilan between from 09:00 until 10:00 am Sunday. Read more
We strongly condemn Iran regimes criminal acts against Kurdish people
Early morning on the 09.05.2010,four young Kurdish prisoners,
Farzad Kamanger,
Ali Heidarian,
Farhad Vakili and
Shirin Alam Holi,were executed by Iranian regime by hanging in the Tehran’s’ Evin prison.
We as United Kurdish Association in NSW-Australia strongly condemn this brutal and criminal act by Iranian regimes against innocent Kurdish civilians. We call up on the world, especially United Nations, Human Right Organizations and international communities to act promptly to prevent another onslaught by the Iranian regimen against the innocent people of Kurdistan
United Kurdish Association of NSW– Australia
17 May 2010
Iran: Executed Dissidents ‘Tortured to Confess’
At Least 17 More Kurdish Prisoners at Risk of Imminent Execution
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“These hangings of four Kurdish prisoners are the latest example of the government’s unfair use of the death penalty against ethnic minority dissidents. The judiciary routinely accuses Kurdish dissidents, including civil society activists, of belonging to armed separatist groups and sentences them to death in an effort to crush dissent.”
Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director
(New York) – Iranian authorities executed five prisoners, four of them ethnic Kurds, without warning their families, and have so far refused to release their bodies, Human Rights Watch said today. These executions follow convictions that appear to have relied on the use of torture. Read more
UK demonstration to protest the barbaric Iranian governments unlawful executions of Kurds
May 10, 2010 by sks
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Wednesday 12th May 1-3 pm on Kensington Road Opposite Iranian Embassy (16 Princes Gate, SW7 1PT)
We call all human rights defenders and Democrats to say NO! to Iranian’s illegal executions and ill treatments amongst Kurds. Shirin and her other 4 friends were executed yesterday morning. And there are more waiting to be executed.
We call all human rights organisations and all human rights activists for solidarity to support this cause!
Supported by:
ROJ Woman Association
Kurdish Community Centre Haringey
Halkevi Hackney
Kurdish Federation UK
Rest in Peace Shirin Alam Hooli
Ms. Alam Hooli (DOB: June 3rd 1981) was born in the village of Gheshlagh near the city of Maku in Iran. She was arrested in May of 2007 by the Revolutionary Guards in Tehran. She spent the first 25 days of her imprisonment in an unknown location under brutal physical and psychological torture. After that she was transferred to Section 209 of the Evin Prison where she was held in solitary confinement and subjected to brutal torture for six (6) months. After that she was transferred to the Women’s ward in the Evin Prison. Read more
Turkish army strikes Kurdish PKK rebel targets in Iraqi Kurdistan
ANKARA, — The Turkish air force has struck Kurdish rebel hideouts in neighbouring Kurdistan region of Iraq after an attack inside Turkey left two soldiers dead, the military said late Friday.
“After detecting that anti-aircraft fire was opened on (Turkish) helicopters from various positions across the border, the air force fired on those positions” for an hour Friday afternoon, the army said in an online statement.
“It has been observed that those positions were destroyed,” it said. Read more
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
