Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran sentences Kurdish prisoner to death, three others to prison

Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has sentenced Kurdish political prisoner Yousef Ahmadi to death on charges of "armed insurrection" (baghi) through membership in a Kurdish opposition party and "taking part in the murder of two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)". At the same time, three other defendants in the case, Mohammad Karimi, Baaset Karimi and Mohammad...

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