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Kurdish prisoner of conscience Farhad Salimi was executed

10:41 - 23/1/2024

Kurdish prisoner of conscience Farhad Salimi was executed

Early today, Tuesday, January 23, 2024, the death sentence of the Kurdish prisoner of conscience "Farhad Salimi", the son of Majid from the village of Deraziart Alia and a resident of Saqqez, was executed after 14 years of imprisonment in the Qazalhasar prison of Karaj.

Farhad Salimi was married and had children.
On Sunday "January 21, 2024" he was transferred to the solitary cell of Qazalhasar prison in Karaj to execute the sentence.
It should be mentioned that three of Farhad Salimi's co-accused named "Gasem Absta, Ayoub Karimi and Dawood Abdollahi" were executed on November 5,  and 29, 2023 and January 1, 2024, after 14 years of imprisonment in Qazalhasar prison in Karaj. 
Based on this report; Farhad Salimi was arrested by security forces along with six Sunni citizens named Anwar Khazri, Qasim Absta, Dawood Abdullahi, Ayoub Karimi from Mahabad, Kamran Sheikha and Khosrow Basharat in December 2009.
   
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.