The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) Marked A submit on social media platform X famous the 14th anniversary of the execution of 4 Kurdish prisoners in Iran.
Shirin Alam Khoury, Farzad Kamangar, Farhad Vakili and Ali Heydarian had been executed in Tehran’s Evin Prison on May 9, 2010. According to KHRN, their executions passed off with out notifying their legal professionals or households.
Shirin Alam Khoury, a Kurdish girl, was arrested in June 2008 and charged with membership within the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK). In a letter to her household, she mentioned she was interrogated and tortured for 21 days at an unknown location earlier than being transferred to Evin Prison.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International had known as for the discharge of Farzad Kamangar throughout his imprisonment. The Kurdish trainer was sentenced to demise for “endangering nationwide safety” and membership within the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Kamangar has been incarcerated since 2006 and stories that he was tortured so badly that he needed to be transferred to the jail infirmary for therapy.
Two different Kurds, Farhad Vakili and Ali Heydarian, had been additionally charged with PKK membership and “moharebeh” (enmity in opposition to God) and executed. A fifth Iranian, Mehdi Eslamian, was executed in Evin Prison on the identical day because the 4 Kurds.
Fourteen years later, Iran continues to execute many prisoners, particularly Kurdish activists: in April, not less than 66 prisoners, together with three ladies, had been executed and 16 others got demise sentences.
One of the prisoners sentenced to demise in April was Iranian rap artist Toumaj Salehi, who was sentenced for criticizing the regime and supporting the nationwide “Zin Ziyan Azadi” (Women, Life and Freedom) protests.
Protests that erupted in September 2022 following the demise of 22-year-old Kurdish girl Zina Mahsa Amini within the custody of morality police have pitted the Iranian individuals in opposition to the nation’s regime.
According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), not less than 767 Iranians had been executed within the 12 months to March 2024. An Amnesty International report discovered that greater than 5,000 individuals had been executed in Iran between January 1, 2012 and July 31, 2023.