Kurdish Political Prisoner Shaker Behrouz at Imminent Risk of Execution After Transfer to Unknown Location
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); June 29, 2022: Kurdish death row political prisoner, Shaker Behrouz who was recently notified of the confirmation of his death sentence, has been transferred to an unknown location from his ward in Urmia Central Prison. His transfer has raised concerns that his execution may be imminent.
Iran Human Rights calls for urgent international action to stop the execution of Shaker Behrouz.
Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “Shaker Behrouz’s death sentence like many others, was issued after an unfair trial and based on confessions obtained under torture, which is unlawful.” He added: “To stop the Islamic Republic’s execution machine, we need a firmer response from the international community.”
According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, Kurdish political prisoner, Shaker Behrouz was transferred from his ward in Urmia Central Prison to an unknown location this morning. Shaker was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) by Branch One of the Urmia Juvenile Court presided over by Judge Sheikhloo for the murder of an IRGC member in 2020. Shaker was informed that his sentence had been upheld by Branch 31 of the Supreme Court on June 25 in prison.
An informed source who wished to remain anonymous told Iran Human Rights: “Shaker joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (in the Kurdish region of Iraq) in 2018 and returned to Iran a few months later. He was arrested and detained for 14 days. Two months after release, he was arrested by intelligence forces in March 2019. He spent a year and nine months under interrogations in solitary confinement in the Ministry of Intelligence’s detention centre in Urmia. He was subjected to electric shocks seven times, they pulled out his nails and subjected him to the most horrific torture. They told him that if he didn’t confess to the murder, they'd bring his family here and rape them in front of him.”
“During the interrogations, they would tell Shaker that he’d be furloughed and released if he confessed to the murder but if his family would be raped in front of him and the video would be aired everywhere if he didn't. He was sentenced to death twice. The first one was for membership in the Kurdistan Democratic Party which was commuted to five years imprisonment and the second was for the murder of an IRGC member, which has been upheld twice,” he added.
He concluded: “Shaker’s family are deeply concerned that his sentence will be carried out when he had nothing to do with the killing. They sentenced Shaker on the fabricated charges.”
Another Kurdish political prisoner, Firuz Mousalu was secretly executed in Urmia Central Prison on June 20 and secretly buried by the authorities.
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