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"Dawood Abdullahi", a Kurdish prisoner of conscience, was executed

11:41 - 3/1/2024

"Dawood Abdullahi", a Kurdish prisoner of conscience, was executed

According to Hana's colleagues: On the morning of Tuesday, January 2, 2024, the death sentence of Dawood Abdullahi, a prisoner of conscience from Mahabad, was executed after 14 years of imprisonment in Qazalhasar prison in Karaj.

Dawood Abdullahi had been on a hunger strike since Tuesday "December 26, 2023" after being transferred to solitary confinement to execute the death sentence.
It should be noted that two Kurdish prisoners of conscience, Ayub Karimi and Qasim Absta, who were also in Dawood Abdullahi's case, were executed on "November 5th and 29, 2023," after 14 years of imprisonment in Qazalhasar prison in Karaj.
Based on this report; Dawood Abdullahi was arrested by the security forces in December 2009, along with six Sunni citizens named Anwar Khazari, Qasim Absta, Farhad Salimi, from Saqqez, Ayyub Karimi from Mahabad, Kamran Sheikha and Khosrow Basharat.
    
According to reports received; They were sentenced to death by the 15th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court in June 2018, on charges of "corruption on earth" and crimes related to national security, following unfair trials during which the court judge denied their lawyer the right to defend them. After being arrested between the middle of December 2009, and the beginning of February 2010, in West Azarbaijan province, these seven people were transferred to the detention center of the Ministry of Information in Orumiyeh and accused of being members of "Salafi groups", a charge all of them denied.
 
In July 2018, another court in West Azarbaijan province sentenced Kamran Sheikha to death on the charge of murdering a man who died in a collision with a car, and sentenced Anwar Khezri and Khosrow Basharat to prison as his accomplices. 
Despite the numerous cases of serious violations of the rules of fair proceedings, in September 2020, the 38th branch of the Supreme Court rejected their request to resume the proceedings. On February 2, 2021, the 41st branch of the Supreme Court confirmed the sentences issued against these seven prisoners.