{"id":220278,"date":"2020-06-11T17:47:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=220278"},"modified":"2023-01-24T09:03:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T08:03:01","slug":"irans-regime-executed-a-political-prisoner-in-secret-three-weeks-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/irans-regime-executed-a-political-prisoner-in-secret-three-weeks-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Regime Executed a Political Prisoner in Secret Three Weeks Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220279\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner-Hedayat-Abdollahpour-was-Executed-by-Iranian-Regime\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iran-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner-Hedayat-Abdollahpour-was-Executed-by-Iranian-Regime.jpg\" alt=\"Iran\u2019s Regime Executed a Political Prisoner in Secret Three Weeks Ago \" width=\"800\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iran-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner-Hedayat-Abdollahpour-was-Executed-by-Iranian-Regime.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iran-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner-Hedayat-Abdollahpour-was-Executed-by-Iranian-Regime-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iran-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner-Hedayat-Abdollahpour-was-Executed-by-Iranian-Regime-768x441.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iran-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner-Hedayat-Abdollahpour-was-Executed-by-Iranian-Regime-696x399.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iran-Kurdish-Political-Prisoner-Hedayat-Abdollahpour-was-Executed-by-Iranian-Regime-732x420.jpg 732w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iran: Kurdish Political Prisoner, Hedayat Abdollahpour was Executed by Iranian Regime<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Iranian regime secretly executed Kurdish political prisoner Hedayat Abdollahpour 21 days ago without informing his family.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The regime also refused to hand over the deceased body to his family for burial, instead, they buried him in a secret location.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">According to the leading Rights group Iran Human Rights Monitor (IRAN HRM), Abdollahpour\u2019s father was told yesterday, upon his arrival at the Implementation Unit of the Urmia Judiciary, that his son was <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iran-hrm.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/10\/iran-secretly-hangs-kurdish-political-prisoner-hedayat-abdollahpour-in-urmia-prison\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">executed<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> on May 21, after he was moved to an undisclosed location on May 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kurdish political prisoner Hedayat Abdollahpour was executed in northwest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a><br \/>\nNeither his family nor his lawyer were informed about the execution and were not given the customary \u201clast visit\u201d with their loved one. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HumanRights?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HumanRights<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3U7rJFSq0N\">https:\/\/t.co\/3U7rJFSq0N<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YU2VoZWC3P\">pic.twitter.com\/YU2VoZWC3P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IranHrm\/status\/1270659617014583297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">His family has desperately tried to obtain information about his fate from the central prison in Urmia, the Centre for the Implementation of Sentences in Urmia, prosecution offices in Urmia and Oshnavieh, and the offices of the ministry of intelligence and the intelligence unit of the Revolutionary Guards in Urmia, but their inquiries were blocked at every turn.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">On May 12, Abdollahpour\u2019s wife followed up with the regime\u2019s deputy prosecutor in Urmia who said that when no one tells you where your husband is, \u201cyou [had] better refer to the cemetery\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Abdollahpour had been on death row in the central prison in Urmia since February 2017, following his unfair trial on the charges on \u201cenmity against God\u201d at the 2nd Branch of the Urmia Revolutionary Court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo\" class=\" wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">He was arrested on June 15, 2016, alongside dozens of others, following a clash in his village in Qarah Soqol in Oshnavieh between the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and the IRGC. Those arrested were suspected of supporting the Kurdish group.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Abdollahpour, who had two children, was detained and tortured in the Urmia IRGC detention center for three months.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The regime\u2019s cruel act of executing and burying Abdollahpour in secret is not uncommon in the case of political prisoners and ethnic minority groups. Sometimes their fate is hidden for years.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Amnesty International had previously <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/download\/Documents\/MDE1323092020ENGLISH.PDF\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> that three other prisoners from ethnic minority groups &#8211; Hossein Silawi, Ali Khasraji, and Naser Khafajian &#8211; have been forcibly disappeared recently and are at risk of secret executions.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Iranian regime has a history of secret executions. In the<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/20932-the-1988-massacre-in-iran\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> summer of 1988, over 30,000<\/a> political prisoners, mostly supporters of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI \/ MEK)<\/a>, were executed in a matter of months. The regime has never published any information about this massacre.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Iranian regime is the top executioner in the world per capita.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The international community should condition any relation with the mullahs\u2019 regime to the immediate stop of executions. Thousands of other political prisoners in the regime\u2019s dungeons are facing the danger of execution and are subjected to various forms of torture. In order to stop mullahs further human rights violations the international community, particularly the United Nations, should intervene and send a fact-finding mission to the Iranian prisons and force the regime to stop executions and torture.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian regime secretly executed Kurdish political prisoner Hedayat Abdollahpour 21 days ago without informing his family.&nbsp;&nbsp; The regime also refused to hand over the deceased body to his family [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":220279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-220278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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