26 human rights organizations have known as on Iran’s judiciary to revoke the demise sentence in opposition to Pakshan Azizi.
The signatory NGOs mentioned in a press release that they strongly condemn the regime’s resolution to uphold the demise sentence in opposition to the Kurdish lady. Iran should launch Azizi unconditionally forward of the execution.
Pakshan Aziji is a social employee and likewise labored as a journalist. Last August, she was arrested in Tehran by Intelligence Ministry officers and subjected to extreme bodily and psychological torture for a number of weeks. She is presently incarcerated within the infamous Evin Prison. In July, a courtroom within the Iranian capital sentenced Azizi to demise by hanging for “armed insurrection in opposition to the regime.”
She was accused, with out proof, of being a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK). She herself denies the accusations as baseless and speaks of a political verdict. Iranian trials are systematically unfair. Prisoners are denied the fitting to due course of, together with entry to a lawyer, and “confessions” extracted beneath torture are usually used as proof for conviction.
Pakshan Azizi was finding out social work at Tehran’s Alame Tabatabai University, the place he was first arrested in November 2009. She was accused of collaborating in scholar protests in opposition to the execution of Kurdish political prisoners. She was launched on bail in March 2010.
She then left Iran and lived for a number of years within the autonomous areas of northern and japanese Syria and the Kurdistan area of Iraq. During the Islamic State assault on Rojava, she labored as a social employee for refugees within the area.