Simultaneously with the widespread civil efforts to cease the execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou, one of many detainees of final yr’s nationwide protests in Iran, which was in the end carried out at this time, Tuesday, January 21, information sources have reported the execution of Farhad Salimi, a Kurdish political prisoner.
According to the report by Hengaw on Tuesday, January 23, the execution order of Farhad Salimi, a Kurdish prisoner from the town of Saqqez in Kurdistan province, was carried out in Karaj’s Ghezel Hesar jail.
Earlier, a world human rights group had issued a warning that Farhad Salimi, a prisoner, was vulnerable to execution. On Sunday, January 21, he was transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar jail in Alborz province and was in “imminent hazard of execution.”
Concerns concerning the execution of Farhad Salimi, a tortured Kurdish particular person, had elevated in latest days following the executions of Qasem Abesteh, Ayoub Karimi, and Davood Abdollahi, who had been executed in separate circumstances over the previous three months.
Amnesty International emphasised in an announcement on January 22 that the trials of those prisoners have been severely unfair and accompanied by torture and different ill-treatment.
— Amnesty Iran (@AmnestyIran) January 22, 2024
Farhad Salimi and 6 different defendants on this case had been sentenced to dying by Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, in March 2016.
Anwar Khodari, Kamran Sheikha, Farhad Salimi, Qasem Abesteh, Khosrow Besharat, Ayoub Karimi, and Davood Abdollahi had been seven defendants who had been collectively sentenced to “execution” on this case, and till at this time, this sentence had been carried out for 3 of them.