Human rights activists in Iran are raising concern over the imminent execution of two brothers, days after the clerical regime hanged two young men involved in the ongoing wave of nationwide protests.
The Islamic Republic planned to execute the two Kurds, Farhad and Farzad Tahazadeh, on December 14, according to human rights defender Atena Daemi.
The family was quoted as saying that the death sentences handed against the pair have been confirmed.
Security forces arrested Farzad on September 25 and Farhad on November 13, both in the northwestern city of Oshnaveih, in West Azerbaijan Province.
The two brothers reportedly received their death sentences from the Revolutionary Court of Urmia.
No further details were immediately available about their cases.
According to information gathered by IranWire, at least 28 protesters have been handed capital punishment after the eruption of the nationwide protest movement that followed the September 16 death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of Tehran’s morality police. Amini was being held for allegedly wearing a head scarf improperly.
Amid widespread domestic and international condemnation of the authorities’ brutal crackdown on the demonstrations, Iran carried out its first execution of a protester on December 8 following a grossly unfair trial, hanging Mohsen Shekari for allegedly wounding a member of the paramilitary Basij force.
Another man, Majidreza Rahnavard, was hanged in public four days later over the alleged killing of two Bajij members.
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