The Iranian regime, executed two Kurdish political prisoners, Diako Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh Abdullah, in Urmia Prison in the early hours of this morning, Tuesday, July 14, 2020. They were executed on the bogus charge of “Moharebeh” (waging war on God).
Diako Rasoulzadeh was arrested in 2013 in his hometown village of Daryas, and Saber Sheikh Abdullah was arrested in Mahabad around the same time in Mahabad. The two prisoners were tortured for a year at the intelligence ministry’s detention centre.
They were deprived of access to lawyers as well as communications with their families.
They were sentenced to death in 2015 by the first branch of Mahabad’s Revolutionary Court under the bogus charge of “waging war against God.” The regime has blamed the two for bombing a military parade in Mahabad in 2010.
Sheikh Abdullah, 34, was a student at the Alameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran at the time of his arrest. Rasoulzadeh was going through his draft service at the army. The two prisoners were tortured to extract confessions.
Amnesty International had called on the Iranian regime to stop the execution of the two prisoners after they were transferred to solitary confinement before their execution. Amnesty also condemned the judicial process and the victims’ lack access to lawyers during their interrogation and trials. “The execution of these youth is an affront to justice and a catastrophic and irreversible violation of the right to life,” Amnesty International declared on its Farsi Twitter account.
