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Iran’s Supreme Court upholds death sentence for Kurdish political prisoner

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Branch Nine of the Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heidaranlou, a Kurdish political prisoner from Chaldoran. The sentence, originally handed down in July 2024 by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh (Urmia), presided over by Judge Najafzadeh, was based on charges of “armed insurrection” (baghi) for alleged membership of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), according to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (…

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Iran’s Supreme Court upholds death sentence for Kurdish political prisoner

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Death Sentence of Political Prisoner Hamid Hosseinnezhad Upheld by Supreme Court

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