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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
Read moreIran 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”
Read moreSupreme 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
Read moreIran 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
Read moreSupreme 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
Read moreKurdish 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
Read moreKurdish 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
Read moreSupreme 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
Read moreNew 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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