death penalty Archives - KHRN

April 29, 2026

Iran sentences detained mother to death without legal counsel

Maryam Hodavand, a woman held in Evin Prison following her arrest during the December 2025/January 2026 uprising, has been sentenced to death by a Tehran revolutionary court in connection with a

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April 7, 2026

Iran court sentences young Kurdish protester to death

Mohsen Eslamkhah, a 20-year-old Kurdish citizen who was arrested in connection with the "Women, Life, Freedom" uprising in Bukan, has been sentenced to death on charges of "enmity against God”

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October 27, 2025

Supreme Court overturns death sentences of five Kurdish citizens

The Supreme Court has overturned the death sentences of five Kurdish citizens - Ali (Soran) Ghassemi, Pezhman Soltani, Kaveh Salehi, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, and Teyfour Salimi Babamiri - and

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September 12, 2025

Iran sentences two Kurdish men to death, prison on espionage charges

Kurdish prisoners Nasser Bekrzadeh and Shahin Vasaf, whose initial death sentences were overturned by the Supreme Court, were resentenced in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. At a retrial in

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February 10, 2025

Supreme Court rejects retrial for Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi

Branch Nine of Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected a request for a judicial review in the case of Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death, raising concerns that her execution

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January 13, 2025

Kurdish activists demand annulment of Pakhshan Azizi’s death penalty

A group of civil, human rights, political and media activists from Kurdistan have issued a statement calling for the immediate annulment of the death sentence imposed on Kurdish political prisoner

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October 2, 2024

Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death following torture-induced confessions

Kurdish political prisoner Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heidaranlou has been sentenced to death after being tortured into confessing to involvement in clashes between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and

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September 18, 2024

Supreme court upholds death sentence for Kurdish political prisoner

The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Hatem Ozdemir, a Kurdish political prisoner with Turkish citizenship, on charges of "enmity against God" (moharebeh), the Kurdistan Human Rights

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August 2, 2024

New details revealed in case of Kurdish activist sentenced to death

Additional details have emerged about the case of Pakhsan Azizi, a Kurdish political prisoner who has been sentenced to death and four years in prison by Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court

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