Iranian authorities on Thursday executed Kurdish man Kamran Sheikheh, the last surviving defendant in a case linked to a Muslim cleric's killing in 2008, rights groups said. Sheikheh, one ...
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Iran executes Kamran Sheikheh
Human rights sources say Iranian authorities have executed Kamran Sheikheh, a Sunni Kurdish prisoner and the last of seven defendants sentenced to death for the 2008 killing of a ...
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Iran hangs 2 women as surge in executions intensifies
Iran hanged at least seven people Saturday, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic Republic further intensified ...
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5 Kurdish People, Including Teen, Sentenced to Prison in Iran
The Iranian judicial system has sentenced five Kurdish individuals to varying terms of imprisonment, according to a report by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. Among those sentenced is ...
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Kurdish political prisoner returned to Orumiyeh Central Prison
Kurdish political prisoner Hatem Ozdemir, who was transferred on 23 June from Orumiyeh Central Prison to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Khoy, West Azerbaijan province, was returned ...
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Ministry of Intelligence increases pressure on Kurdish political prisoner
Kurdish political prisoner Nayeb Askari, who is on death row, was transferred from the political ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison to ward 3 of the prison on the orders ...
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