Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish civilian sentenced to death for alleged ‘espionage for Israel’

The Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, has sentenced Kurdish civilian Nasser Bekrzadeh to death on charges of “espionage for Israel”, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The verdicts came within days of similar sentences for three other Kurdish men, Edris Ali, Azad Shojaei and Rasoul Ahmad Rasoul, adding to a recent spate of death sentences handed down in espionage cases. Asghar...

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