Farhad Salimi, a Kurdish prisoner hailing from Saqqez, has confronted the grim actuality of his loss of life sentence being carried out in Ghezel Hesar jail in Karaj after enduring 14 years of imprisonment. Despite the latest executions of his co-accused, particularly Davud Abdollahi, Qasim Abeste, and Ayoub Karimi, inside the previous two months, Farhad Salimi met the identical unlucky destiny.
As per a report acquired by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, within the early hours of Tuesday, January 23, 2024, Farhad Salimi, who spent fourteen years incarcerated with out the precise to depart, was executed in Ghezel Hesar jail in Karaj. Salimi had been transferred to solitary confinement on Sunday, and his household was denied the precise to a ultimate assembly. Despite being instructed to return for a final go to at this time, upon arrival, the household was knowledgeable that Farhad Salimi’s loss of life sentence had been carried out.
Hengaw emphasised that this political prisoner confronted a loss of life sentence by a course of that was utterly non-transparent, unfair, and unlawful inside the judicial system of the regime.
It is noteworthy that Farhad Salimi, together with co-accused Anwar Khezri, Khsraw Besharat, and Kamaran Shekha, initiated a starvation strike on Saturday, December 30, 2023, in Ghezel Hesar jail in Karaj. The starvation strike served as a protest towards the execution of their fellow prisoner, Davud Abdollahi, and in anticipation of their potential execution.
In latest months, three different people from Farhad Salimi’s co-accused group, particularly Davud Abdullahi, Ayoub Karimi, and Qasim Abeste, have been executed in the identical jail. The people, together with Davud Abdullahi, Farhad Salimi, Anwar Khezri, Qasim Abeste, Khsraw Besharat, Kamaran Shekha, and Ayoub Karimi, have been apprehended on December 7, 2009, by safety forces and later transferred to the intelligence company detention middle in Urmia City.
Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, led by Judge Moqiseh, handed down the loss of life sentences for these prisoners. The fees towards them within the homicide case of “Abdul Rahim Tina” included “motion towards nationwide safety,” “propaganda towards the regime,” “membership in Salafi teams,” and “corruption on earth.”
The session for the accusations towards these seven Kurdish prisoners happened in March 2015, with the talked about sentences formally communicated to them on May 25, 2016.
It is value noting that the decision was initially overturned by the forty first department of the regime Supreme Court, headed by Judge Razini, in 2017. An attraction was made to the fifteenth department of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, the place, in June 2017, Davoud Abdollahi and 6 different co-accused have been once more sentenced to loss of life by Judge Abolqasem Salvati.
This verdict was confirmed by the forty first department of the regime’s Supreme Court with repeated stress from the regime’s Intelligence Department in Urmia. On Monday, March 4, 2020, it was formally communicated to Mahmoud Walizadeh Tabatabai, the lawyer representing these seven Kurdish non secular prisoners.
Initially incarcerated in Gohardasht jail, these seven people have been later transferred to Ghezel Hesar jail in Karaj on August 1, 2023, following the evacuation of Gohardasht jail.