Iran issues death sentences against 3 Kurdish citizens

Iranian authorities have issued death sentences against three Kurdish citizens after convicting them on charges related to smuggling equipment used in the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Fakhrizadeh was killed in a targeted operation in November 2020, which Iran accused Israel of orchestrating.

Iran issues death sentences against 3 Kurdish citizens
8 November, 2024   11:58
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The Kurdish Human Rights Organizations Network announced that the Revolutionary Court in Urmia sentenced the citizens: Idris Ali and Azad Shajai from the Dolakram region in Sardasht, and Rasul Ahmad Muhammad from S. Kurdistan, to death.

They were charged with "spying for Israel and transferring equipment for terrorist purposes," charges their families have denied. Human rights activists confirmed that the accused were subjected to physical and psychological torture during their detention to extract forced confessions.

The case of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh's assassination, one of Iran's leading nuclear research scientists, sparked widespread reactions both inside and outside Iran, leading to an escalation of tensions in the region, with mutual accusations between Iran and Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the operation.

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