Erbil, Jan.20 (AKnews)- A Kurdish politician said Thursday some 57 people have been executed since 2011, including eight Kurds. The number of Kurdish people executed in the meantime exceeds the total number of reported execution of Kurds in Iran in the previous year.
Juvenile,Executed in Iran Salar Pashyai, a politburo member of the Toilers Group of Kurdistan (an Iranian opposition Kurdish party) told AKnews the 57 people were hanged due to different charges, ranging from trafficking narcotics to affiliation with the opposition parties.
Seven of the eight Kurdish people hanged during these 20 days in Kermanshahan province were accused of trafficking narcotics and the other of “complicity” with the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK, an anti-Iranian militant organization.)
Hussein Khidhri was executed for links with PJAK Jan.16 in Urumiyyeh’s jail in Azarbaijane Gharbi province.
Another prisoner, Habibollah Lotfi survived execution order under international pressure. The student was accused of involvement in PJAK’s “terrorist’ activities.
The figures by the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) indicate in 2010 some seven political Kurdish prisoners were executed and one dies under torture. 15 are also threatened by execution.
According to the same agency in 2010, some 189 people were executed.
The statistics by the Amnesty International show only in 2009, some 388 people were executed- approximately one person per day. The county topped the rest for execution enforcement in the same year.
Reported by Fuad Rahim
Lh/AKnews
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