{"id":54935,"date":"2024-01-23T17:43:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=54935"},"modified":"2024-01-23T17:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:43:11","slug":"execution-of-kurdish-political-prisoner-farhad-salimi-by-irans-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/human-rights\/2024\/01\/execution-of-kurdish-political-prisoner-farhad-salimi-by-irans-regime\/54935\/","title":{"rendered":"Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner Farhad Salimi by Iran’s Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"On — Kurdish political prisoner Farhad Salimi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
On Tuesday, January 23, 2024, Iranian regime authorities in Ghezel Hesar prison carried out the death sentence of Kurdish\u00a0Sunni political prisoner Farhad Salimi.<\/p>\n
On January 20, this Kurdish prisoner of conscience from Saqqez, who had been on hunger strike for three weeks, was transferred to solitary confinement, an indication of his looming execution.<\/p>\n
On December 31, 2023, Anwar Khezri, Kamran Sheikhah, Khosrow Besharat, and Farhad Salimi, four prisoners of conscience sentenced to death went on a hunger strike following the transfer of Davood Abdollahi to solitary confinement in preparation for his execution and the grave danger of their own death sentence.<\/p>\n
On January 2, 2024, the regime carried out the death sentence of Davoud Abdollahi after a week of transfer to solitary confinement at the Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj. Ghasem Abesteh and Ayoub Karimi, other Kurdish prisoners of conscience, were also executed on November 5 and 29, 2023 at Ghezel Hesar Prison.<\/p>\n
After the execution of Qasem Abesteh and Ayoub Karimi, security agencies told the families of the other prisoners to remain silent so that at least the bodies of the executed were delivered.<\/p>\n
Amnesty International had warned about the imminent execution of Salimi and called for its immediate halt on January 22.<\/p>\n
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Tortured prisoner Farhad Salimi, from Iran\u2019s Kurdish Sunni minority, faces imminent execution in Ghezel Hesar prison after transfer to solitary confinement yesterday. The authorities must stop his execution NOW. https:\/\/t.co\/DqER0kRKoN<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Nbi5Pi8RHO<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014 Amnesty Iran (@AmnestyIran) January 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n