The execution sentence of Mostafa Salimi was carried out

Hengaw: The execution sentence of a prisoner from Saqqez who had escaped during the revolt in this p

11 April 2020 20:19

 

Hengaw: The execution sentence of a prisoner from Saqqez who had escaped  during the revolt in this prison and then rearrested, was carried out in Saqqez central prison.

According  to the report received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Saturday morning, April 11,2020, the execution sentence of Mostafa Salimi, the Kurdish political prisoner was carried out in Saqqez central prison.

He has been in detention for 17 years in Sanandaj and Saqqez  prisons without having right of temporary release from prison.

Mostafa Salimi along with 70 prisoners escaped from Saqqez prison on March 27 and rearrested after 10 days by security forces.

Mostafa Salimi is from Ilou village of Saqqez, born on July 1967 who arrested on April 6, 2003, in charge of attacking Iranshah barrack in Saqqez and killing a member of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Nahawand city in Hamadan province and transferred to Sanandaj prison.

Mostafa Salimi was later sentenced to death and 15 years in prison by Saqqez revolutionary court presided by judge Godini in charge of stick-up and military engagement with Iranian military forces and the verdict confirmed by 31th branch of the country supreme court.

It's worth noting that Mostafa Salimi had several times went on hunger strike in recent years as a protest for his unfair sentence.

gainst God), Stick-up and membership in Kurdish opposition parties.

This prisoner has previously been a member of Democratic party of Iranian Kurdistan for some years and had returned to Saqqez after separation from the party.

He has been in detention for 17 years in Sanandaj and Saqqez prisons without having right of temporary release from prison.

Based on our sources, Shoresh Morowatti  has not been executed.The Hengaw efforts to contact with Mostafa Salimi's family has not been succeeded yet. According to reports received by Hengaw, the security agencies have threatened his family not to talk with eny media and have no permission to have a funeral ceremony.


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