{"id":3477,"date":"2024-02-04T18:27:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T18:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codir.net\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2024-02-04T18:27:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T18:27:35","slug":"codir-calls-for-stay-of-execution-of-nayeb-askari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codir.net\/?p=3477","title":{"rendered":"CODIR Calls for stay of Execution of Nayeb Askari!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Political prisoner Nayeb Askari faces execution in Orumiyeh Central Prison on trumped-up charges based on confessions obtained through sustained and inhumane tortures.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HRANA (Human Rights News Agency) reported on 2 February that Nayeb (Naeb) Askari, held in Orumiyeh Central Prison, is at risk of execution after the Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court sentenced him to death for Baghi (armed rebellion) in a recent retrial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially sentenced<\/strong> <\/a>to death for \u201cenmity against God (Moharebeh)\u201d on April 15, 2023, his plea for a retrial was accepted, leading to a charge change to Baghi. In October 2023, the court reaffirmed the death sentence, with the hearings reportedly conducted without his lawyer\u2019s presence. The charge is supported by his alleged membership in a Kurdish political opposition party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to information released by Kurdistan Human Rights Network, Askari was arrested in Orumiyeh on 24 March 2021 by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).  He was sent to Orumiyeh Central Prison after spending three months in the detention facility of the IRGC\u2019s intelligence organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April 2023, Branch Two of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh sentenced Askari to death on charges of \u201cenmity against God\u201d (moharebeh) through \u201cmembership\u201d in the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HRANA\u2019s source reveals another ongoing case accusing Askari of the murder of IRGC member Mostafa Soltani. In 2013-2014, Soltani was injured during a clash with a political opposition party member, passing away six years later from COVID-19. Soltani\u2019s family claims alleged Askari\u2019s involvement in the altercation caused the sustained injury leading to his eventual death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new case, opened on July 12, 2021, based on a complaint from the Orumiyeh Prison head, resulted in a three-month imprisonment extension and 50 lashes for \u201cdisrupting prison order.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, on 26 July 2021, Askari went on a 32-day hunger strike to protest against the judicial authorities\u2019 failure to issue an order for transferring him to a hospital outside the prison for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to HRA\u2019s annual report<\/strong><\/a>, in 2023, Orumiyeh Prison officials executed 29 inmates, positioning this facility as the sixth highest in terms of executions among the ranked prisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In line with its principled stance on the issue, held since its very founding, CODIR unequivocally opposes the use of the death penalty and views it as one of the main instruments of brutal oppression meted out to the long-suffering people of Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The death sentence is one of the vile hallmarks of the Islamic Republic regime which has long topped the world\u2019s statistics for the rate of execution per population\u2026  A damning indictment of its cruel rule!  CODIR demands at least a moratorium on the execution of death sentences in Iran pursuant to their outright abolition, and that those officials involved in the perpetration of these most egregious of human rights abuses are brought to account for them in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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