UN experts urge Iran to cancel Kurd's death sentence
Three United Nations human rights experts called on Iran on Thursday to annul a death sentence handed to an Iranian Kurdish prisoner, citing concerns he had been tortured in detention. , who they said was arrested last June for alleged membership in the Kurdish nationalist group Komala, "would be unconscionable". In a joint statement, they said he had been "sentenced to death for taking up arms against the state" due to his alleged membership of the group. Iran's Supreme Court apparently reaffirmed the death sentence earlier this month, ...
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