Amnesty International has condemned the execution of 4 Iranian-Kurdish political prisoners within the Qezal Hesar jail of Karaj, calling it a “terror” and urging the worldwide group to stress the Iranian authorities to halt the executions instantly.
The human rights group said that the Iranian authorities have violated worldwide legislation by subjecting the 4 males to enforced disappearance since their arrest, and have harassed and intimidated their households for supporting them.
Amnesty International emphasised that the executions are a part of a regarding improve in executions by the Iranian authorities, significantly focusing on protesters, dissidents, and members of oppressed ethnic minorities such because the Kurds and Baloch.
The group referred to as on the worldwide group to sentence the usage of the demise penalty as a instrument of repression by the Iranian authorities and to induce for a right away halt to executions.
The execution of the 4 prisoners has been strongly condemned by human rights organizations and figures, regardless of widespread worldwide protests towards their state of affairs.
The prisoners, who have been members of the Kurdistan Kumle Party, have been arrested in Urmia final 12 months and accused of spying for Israel, a cost they repeatedly denied.
According to their kinfolk, the prisoners had been disadvantaged of assembly their households since their arrest in August 1401. After 19 months of no contact, the households met the prisoners in Evin jail on February eighth, the place they have been knowledgeable that it might be their final assembly. On Sunday afternoon, the prisoners have been transferred to Qezal Hesar jail in Karaj, the place their demise sentences have been executed on Monday, the ninth of Bahman.