Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran: Fears for imminent execution of two Kurdish prisoners of conscience

Kurdish prisoners of conscience Mohyeddin Ebrahimi and Mohyeddin Tazehvared, both sentenced to death, were transferred from the ward for political prisoners in Orumiyeh Central Prison, in West Azerbaijan province, to an undisclosed location for unknown reasons on 26 October. As the Iranian Supreme Court had upheld their death sentences, there is fear that they would be executed soon. Security forces also transferred another religious prisoner, Davoud...

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