SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Iranian authorities executed a Kurdish prisoner in Kermanshah on Saturday, a rights group said.
Hengaw Organization for Human Rights said Ali Reza Muradi, 28, was executed in Dizel Abad prison in Kermanshah six years after his detention.
Muradi was detained six years ago over “deliberate murder” in Kermanshah, said the organization, which monitors human rights abuses in Iranian Kurdistan.
On December 19, Iranian authorities executed Kurdish political prisoner Haider Qurbani “secretly” in Sanandaj central prison, according to Hengaw and Amnesty International.
He was denied any farewell between him and his family, Hengaw said.,
Qurbani alongside his wife’s brother Mahmoud Sadqy was detained in October 2016, the organization said.
He was sentenced to death in January 2021 for being a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), a Kurdish armed group seeking self-determination for Iran’s Kurdish minority.
“The case of Haidar Qurbani was so marred with flaws and lack of any credible evidence that the horror of his execution is heightened even further,” AFP quoted Amnesty’s Iran researcher Raha Bahreini as saying.
“This consolidates an alarming pattern of the Iranian authorities carrying out executions in secret or at short notice to minimize the chances of public and private interventions to save people’s lives,” she added.
“Haidar’s death is unlawful even under the Islamic Republic’s own rules.”
Amnesty said his case was still under consideration at the Supreme Court and his relatives were merely pointed towards his grave after it was carried out, AFP reported.
Iran carried out at least 246 executions in 2020, securing the “shameful place of second top executioner worldwide”, Amnesty said.
