Kurdish political activist Hamzah Qadiri was executed...
Kurdish political activist Hamzah Qadiri was executed in the Urumiyeh prison, according to an announcement from the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI)
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Kurdish political activist Hamzah Qadiri was executed in the Urumiyeh prison, according to an announcement from the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI).
KDPI Secretary-General Khosrow Abdullahi told RFE/RL Persian Service correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari that Qadiri was sentenced to death for membership in and cooperation with the KDPI after a brief trial in which he did not have legal representation.
Qadiri and several other KDPI members were arrested in 1997, Abdullahi said, and he added that currently 110 Kurds are imprisoned and 12 of them are awaiting execution of their death sentences.
KDPI Secretary-General Khosrow Abdullahi told RFE/RL Persian Service correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari that Qadiri was sentenced to death for membership in and cooperation with the KDPI after a brief trial in which he did not have legal representation.
Qadiri and several other KDPI members were arrested in 1997, Abdullahi said, and he added that currently 110 Kurds are imprisoned and 12 of them are awaiting execution of their death sentences.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: IPR Strategic Business Information Database, 14/10/2002)
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