Iran’s judiciary has executed four members of the Kurdish minority following accusations of sabotage. As the justice portal Mizan wrote on Monday, the men were accused of collaborating with Israel’s arch-enemy Mossad.
The defendants are said to have planned an attack on a Ministry of Defense factory in the city of Isfahan. The men were trained for this by the Mossad in “African countries”.
According to Mizan, the defendants had appealed their death sentences. The Norway-based human rights organization Hengaw accused the Islamic Republic of an unfair trial.
Confessions under torture
“Throughout the process, prisoners were denied their basic rights to legal representation, visitation and even communication with their families,” Hengaw wrote in a statement. The confessions of the four Kurds were extracted under torture.
Criticism of the practice
Human rights activists have criticized the practice of the death penalty in Iran for decades. There are no official figures on executions. According to an annual report from Hengaw, 829 people were executed last year. Amnesty International accuses authorities of using the death penalty as an “instrument of oppression” against ethnic minorities.
Source: Krone
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