Breathing in Confinement

Four Kurdish political prisoners were sentenced to death

10-January-2024

Category: ethnic minorities، executions، Prisoners

 

January 9, 2024
News Category: Executions – Ethnic Minorities – Prisoners

Breathing in Confinement: Four Kurdish political prisoners, after 17 months of detention with no information about their situation, have been sentenced to execution by the Urmia Revolutionary Court.

According to “Breathing in Confinement,” the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Mohsen Mazloum, Pejman Fatehi, Vafa Azarbar, and Hojir Faramarzi have been condemned to execution by the Urmia Revolutionary Court.
Joanna Teymsi, the wife of Mohsen Mazloum, stated: “All stages from arrest, interrogation, trial to the issuance of their sentence have been carried out quickly in absolute ambiguity, obscurity, non-transparency, and injustice.”
She added: “They all have endured pressure, harassment, and torture for over a year and a half. And all these in absolute secrecy and media silence, with the government failing to be accountable for their situation and conditions.”

Currently also, there is no information available about the charges and the specifics of the accusations against them.
It is worth noting that Mohsen Mazloum (Maaroufi), 28 years old from Mahabad, Pejman Fatehi, 28 years old from Kamyaran, Vafa Azarbar, 29 years old from Bukan, and Hojir Faramarzi, 29 years old from Dehgolan, were arrested on July 23, 2022, by agents of the FARAJA Information Organization (under the command of the Law Enforcement Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran) in the Souma Baradost region of Urmia county.

Simultaneously, Tasnim News Agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, announcing their detention, claimed that a network of people linked to Israel, intending to carry out destructive operations in Iran, had been arrested by security forces