Amnesty International has issued an announcement warning of the upcoming execution of 4 Iranian residents imprisoned in Qazal Hesar jail in Karaj. They have referred to as for the intervention of authorities from different international locations to forestall these sentences from being carried out.
The 4 people, Anwar Khezri, Farhad Salimi, Kamran Sheikha, and Khosro Besharat, have been born in Mahabad metropolis, Kurdish-speaking, and Sunni. They have been arrested in December 2008 and sentenced to loss of life in March 2014. Three different residents who confronted comparable expenses have already been executed, resulting in a starvation strike by the 4 people in protest of their impending execution.
The case in opposition to them is linked to the homicide of Teacher Abdulrahim Tina, the imam of the Khalfai Rashedin Mosque in Mahabad in 2007. Amnesty International has despatched a letter to the Embassy of the Islamic Republic in Brussels, demanding the cancellation of the “unfair” sentence and criticizing the torture of those people.
The group has referred to as for honest trials in accordance with worldwide requirements and has urged in opposition to the usage of inhumane and anti-human rights punishments similar to loss of life sentences.
The Supreme Court overturned the loss of life sentences of the prisoners in 2015 attributable to lack of proof, just for the decrease court docket to difficulty the identical verdict once more in 2017. Amnesty International’s report additionally highlights the pressured confessions obtained by torture and the unjust trials lasting lower than two minutes.
The households of the imprisoned people have raised issues in regards to the affirmation of the loss of life sentences, whereas human rights organizations have warned in regards to the imminent executions. Iran has been criticized for its excessive variety of executions, with a minimum of 823 executions in 2023.
Amnesty International has additionally accused the judges of merely obeying different intelligence and oppressive establishments, and has highlighted the dearth of honest trials for the accused people. There are additionally studies of extra Iranian residents dealing with comparable unjust trials and sentences.