Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish prisoner of conscience Davoud Abdollahi was executed today after 14 years in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. He went on hunger strike after being transferred to solitary confinement for execution on 26 December and was executed on the seventh day of his hunger strike, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Abdollahi had been sentenced to death along with six others –...

Kurdish prisoners of conscience Anvar Khezri, Kamran Sheikheh, Khosrow Besharat, Davoud Abdollahi, and Farhad Salimi face imminent execution in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, after spending 14 years in prison on charges of "spreading corruption on earth" (efsad-e fel arz). The executions of two of their co-defendants, Ghassem Abasteh and Ayoub Karimi on 5 and 29 November, respectively, have sparked concerns about the...