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A video of two Kurdish prisoners of conscience, "Ghasem Absta' and Dawood Abdullahi"
08:46 - 9/5/2024
A video of two Kurdish prisoners of conscience, "Ghasem Absta' and Dawood Abdullahi" from Mahabad, was received by Hana Human Rights Organization, which date and time of the video is unknown.
Qasim Absta and Dawood Abdullahi along with two other prisoners and their cases named "Farhad Salimi and Ayoub Karimi" were executed on November 5th, November 29th, 2023 and January 2, 2024, after 14 years of imprisonment in Qazalhasar prison in Karaj.
Also, Anwar Khazri from Mahabad, another of their cases, was executed on " May 1, 2024," after nearly 15 years of imprisonment in Qazalhasar prison in Karaj.
These five prisoners along with two other citizens named "Khosro Besharat and Kamran Sheikhe" were arrested by the security forces in the cities of Saqqez and Mahabad in December 2009.
According to received reports; They were sentenced to death by Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court in June 2018 on charges of "corruption on earth" and crimes related to national security, following unfair trials during which the 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 Orumieh and accused of being members of "Salafi groups", a charge they 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 verdicts issued against these seven prisoners.
08:50 - 9/5/2024 Updated.
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