Lawyers and Family Members of Four Kurdish Prisoners Gather Outside Evin Prison; Demand Annulment of Death Sentences and Public Trial

Sunday, Tehran: The moms and households of 4 Kurdish political prisoners, Pejman Fatehi, Vafa Azarbar, Mohsen Mazloom, and Mohammad Faramarzi, together with their attorneys, gathered exterior the Evin Prison visitation constructing in Tehran. They are calling for the cessation of execution orders, a public trial, and the peace of mind of visitation rights with their kids. According to knowledgeable sources, their calls for have but to be addressed.

Yesterday, 18 human rights organizations issued a joint assertion demanding the annulment of those prisoners’ demise sentences. The assertion, signed by varied teams together with Impact Iran Coalition, Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation, Human Rights Organization of Iran, and several other organizations advocating for ethnic minority rights, states that since their arrest, Mazloom, Fatehi, Azarbar, and Faramarzi have been denied exterior communication and “had been tortured to extract pressured confessions, which had been broadcasted on Iranian state tv.”

These 18 human rights organizations of their assertion additional described the trials of those 4 Kurdish political prisoners within the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran as “severely violating the rules of honest trial and judicial course of in keeping with worldwide requirements.”

The scenario stays tense because the households and their authorized representatives proceed to push for justice and a good listening to for the accused, amidst rising worldwide concern over human rights practices in Iran.