Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish prisoner of conscience Ayoub Karimi was executed today after 14 years in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. On 21 November, Karimi was transferred to solitary confinement for execution. Karimi, along with six others – Anvar Khezri, Kamran Sheikheh, Khosrow Besharat, Davoud Abdollahi, Farhad Salimi and Ghassem Abasteh – had been sentenced to death on charges of "spreading corruption on earth" (efsad-e fel arz). Abasteh,...

Kurdish prisoner of conscience Ayoub Karimi is facing imminent execution in Ghezal Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, after his family's final visit. On 25 November, several family members of the Sunni Kurdish prisoner visited him after being urgently summoned to the prison for what could be their last meeting. Ghassem Abasteh, one of Karimi's co-defendants, was executed in the same prison on 5 November. An informed...

Death row Kurdish prisoner of conscience Ayoub Karimi was moved to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, on 21 November, heightening fears of his imminent execution. Ghassem Abasteh, one of Karimi's co-defendants, was executed in the same prison on 5 November. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) issued a report on 17 November, highlighting that Ayoub Karimi and five other political prisoners...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network(KHRN): Four Kurdish religious prisoners - Anwar Khezri, Ayoub Karimi, Qasem Abasteh, and Dawood Abdollahi- were transferred from Karaj Prison to the Mahabad Prison for trial at the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad on Apr 20, 2019. KHRN has been informed that these prisoners had been transferred to Mahabad Prison to be prosecuted for the murder of a Sunni cleric called “Abdul...