Saber Sheikh Abdullah and Diako Rasoulzadeh were “executed” in Urmia Prison
News from Iran indicates that two Kurdish political prisoners were executed in Urmia Central Prison on Tuesday morning.
Kurdish news sources, including the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, reported on Tuesday, July 14, the execution of Diako Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh Abdullah an hour after midnight.
The two political prisoners were executed hours after the human rights organization Amnesty International called on Iranian authorities to "immediately" halt their executions.
An hour earlier, news had arrived from Iran that Rasoulzadeh and Sheikh Abdullah had been transferred to solitary confinement to serve their sentences.
Amnesty International also tweeted: "The death sentences for these two young men were issued after a grossly unfair judicial process and based on confessions obtained under torture and ill-treatment."
Four years after the explosion in the city of Mahabad, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence's public relations department announced on Sunday, May 18, that it had arrested three of those involved in the 2010 Mahabad bombing in the same city.
The Mahabad bombing, which occurred during the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq War in September 2010, killed 12 people and injured 82 others.
Diako Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh Abdullah were two of the defendants.
Source: Radio Farda
