Iranian
government use execution to scare Kurdish political prisoners
Tehran
The
Iranian authorities has executed 18 Iranian Kurdish prisoners from several
prisons in the country.
According
to an Iranian media report, on Tuesday, three men and a woman from Urmia
prison, three prisoners from Bandar Abbas prison and 11 other prisoners from
Karaj Qizilhasar prison were executed.
The
victims from Urmia Prison were; Yadulla Fahimi, Muhtar Dawudkha, Manuchehr
Rezayi and his wife Marziyeh Ostwar.
According
to Iranian Justice Ministry, they were executed on charges of drug dealings.
Moreover,
in Bandar Abbas Jail, the executed prisoners were; Alireza Qurbani, Ali Akbar
Nouradini and Hussen Shaho Zehi and Iranian government has said that they were
hanged on charges of smuggling drugs into the country.
Furthermore,
the Justice Ministry said the other 11 prisoners of Karaj Qizilhasar prison
have been executed for the same reason.
News
reports stated that the prisoners of Karaj Qizilhasar prison started hunger
strike due to the condition of the prison before being executed.
Iranian government
often intentionally accuse prisoners for drug related crimes, but actually they
are political activists working for human rights and freedom and majority of
them are Kurds.
the latest
executions from Iran, comes at the time when for the last 13 days, Kurdish
political prisoners in Urmia prison have began hunger strike against the
inhumanity behaviour and the bad treatment of the prisoners in the Iranian
Prisons.
According
to human rights activists, Iranian government executes prisoners in order to
scare Kurdish political prisoners to end their hunger strike.
Based on
the human rights activists in Iran, more than 850 prisoners have been hanged in
the last 8 months.
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