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 Iran executes member of Kurdish PEJAK rebel group

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Iran executes member of Kurdish PEJAK rebel group  7.1.2008




January 7, 2008

Sanandaj, Iranian Kurdistan,-- Iran has executed a member of the Kurdish rebel group PJAK (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan), who was arrested last year during demonstrations against the Islamic regime.

PJAK member "Agit," Hassan Hikmat Demir's nom de guerre, had escaped from prison after being arrested last year. He was later captured by Iranian security officials and sentenced to death by hanging.

The Kurdish rebel group PJAK (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan), has been behind a string of deadly attacks on the Iranian revolutionary guard in (Iranian Kurdistan), northwestern Iran in recent months.
www.ekurd.net Since 2004 PEJAK took up arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdistan province northwestern of Iran. Half the members of PEJAK are women.

PJAK, which believed to be linked to the Turkey's Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighting the Turkish army, has been behind a string of deadly attacks in the Kurdish northwest Iran in recent months.

Several PJAK members had earlier been sentenced to death in Iran, but Demir's execution is the first time Iran has implemented one of these decisions. In response to the execution PJAK has threatened to retaliate.

Iran's Kurdistan, Kermanshah and West Azarbaijan provinces, which have substantial Kurdish populations, have been the scene of clashes between Iranian forces and Kurdish separatist militants of the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan or PJAK.

todayszaman | Agencies

Iranian Kurdistan
** Iranian Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistana Īranź or Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) or Rojhilatź Kurdistan (East of Kurdistan)) is an unofficial name for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes the greater parts of West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan Province, Kermanshah Province, and Ilam Province. Kurds form the majority of the population of this region with an estimated population of 4 million. The region is the eastern part of the greater cultural-geographical area called Kurdistan.
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KDPI

The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Kurdish (Hīzbī Dźmokiratī Kurdistanī Źran) is a Kurdish opposition group in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a democratic federal republic of Iran.

The current General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan is Mustafa Hijri
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The present leader of the organisation is Haji Ahmadi. According to the Washington Times, half the members of PEJAK are women, many of them still in their teens, and one of the female members of the leadership council is Gulistan Dugan, a psychology graduate from the University of Tehran. This is due primarily to the fact that PEJAK is strongly supportive of women's rights. PEJAK believes that women must have a strong role in government and must be on an equal level with men in leadership positions.

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