A Kurdish political prisoner was executed on the vague charges of Moharebeh (enmity against God) and murder in Iran’s Sanandaj Central Prison.
Tilako Village
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learnt that the prisoner, Morteza Rahmani, was executed on 3 August after he was transferred to a solitary confinement cell in Sanandaj Central Prison on 31 July. The judiciary and the security authorities of the province have not returned Rahmani’s dead body to his family as of yet.
According to KHRN’s information, agents of the Intelligence Ministry had first arrested the 26-year-old prisoner, who was a resident of Tilko village in Kamyaran area, late in 2011.
He was initially sentenced to death on charges of Moharebeh due to his membership in an outlawed Kurdish party and the murder of a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG) along with his son in the Kamyaran area. The Provincial Court and the Supreme Court approved the verdict
Rahmani was affiliated with a Kurdish party located in the Shaho Mountain before he was summoned by IRGC’s security forces that later forced to cooperate with the Iranian security forces under duress.
But later the armed forces of the Kurdish party arrested him in Shaho Mountain for his attempt to carry out assassinations among the Kurdish group. However, they later released him.
He was arrested and sentenced by the Iranian security forces upon his return to his Tilko village. He was sentenced on charges of membership in an outlawed Kurdish party after several months of detention and the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj later charged him with the murder of an IRGC member Omar Dadgar and his son.
It is widely believed that his execution was the result of his failure to complete his mission for the IRGC, as there was no concrete evidence to support Rahmani’s prosecution and execution.
