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Iran: 2 Kurdish journalists are condemned
to death
19.7.2007
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July 19, 2007
Mariwan, Iranian Kurdistan, -- On 17th July
2007, the “Revolutionnary Tribunal” of Mariwan
condemned to death two Kurdish journalists, Adnan
Hassanpur and Hiwa Botimar, for acting against the
country's national security « espionage ».
They have been just transfered to the central prison
of Sanandaj (Sine), the capital of the province of
Kurdistan, for the execution of their judgment.
These collaborators of ASO magazine (Horizons),
published in Kurdish and Persan in Sanandaj, were
arrested at the end of December 2006, by the
dreadful Iranian police ITILAAT. At the time of
their detention in the prison of Mariwan, they were
severely tortured. To protest against these
maltreatments, they had made several hunger strikes. |
Adnan Hassanpur and Hiwa Botimar. Photo
Renesans.nu |
The arrest of these two peaceful Kurdish journalists,
of which one is engaged in an ecologist movement, is
a part of a vast campaign of repression, launched by
Iranian president Ahmedinejad’s regime against “the
interior enemies”.
Some Iranian news websites have suggested that both
men are members of Kurdish groups that oppose the
central government.
Hassanpur's sister today rejected such suggestions
in comments to Radio Farda:
"I think his only [offense] is his pen and the
articles he has written," she said. "As Adnan's
sister, I know all about him -- he didn't have any
relation to any political party inside or outside
Iran. All our relatives and friends know that Adnan
was not related to any [opposition] parties and he's
been a totally independent journalist."
During the last months, 150 intellectuals,
journalists, and representatives of the Kurdish
civil society were thus arrested. Most of them risk
heavy judgments, facing the legal machinery of a
regime founded by a leader, Ayyatollah Khomeini,
who, since August 1979, called million of Kurds in
Iran “enemies and children of Satan”, for the only
motive that they are not shiite and support a laic
and democratic regime.
Without an urgent intervention of the international
community, both journalists will be executed and
their martyrdom could open the way with a series of
execution of other political prisoners, Kurdish and
Iranian.
There are around 10 million of Kurds in Iran, mostly
in four Western provinces (Kurdistan), contiguous in
Kurdistan of Iraq and Turkey.
Campaign to invalidate the
death sentence for two Kurd journalists and civic
actives Adnan Hassanpur and Hiwa Butimar
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