According to reports received by the Hana Human Rights Organization: On early Thursday morning, July 25, 2024, Kamran Shaykha, a Kurdish religious prisoner from Mahabad, was executed in the central prison of Orumieh.
According to an informed source, Kamran Shaykha's family was informed to come to the central prison of Orumieh on Wensday JUly 23, 2024, for a final meeting with him. This religious prisoner was transferred from Mahabad prison to the central prison of Orumieh 15 days ago.
It is worth noting that six of Kamran Shaykha's co-defendants, named "Qasem Abasteh, Anwar Khazri, Farhad Salimi, Ayob Karimi, Davood Abdollahi, and Khosrow Basharat," were executed in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj after 14 years of imprisonment on November 5, November 29, 2023, and January 2, and May 1 and May 15, 2024.
According to this report, in December 2009, Kamran Shaykha, along with six Sunni citizens named "Anwar Khazri, Qasem Abasteh, Farhad Salimi from Saqqez, Ayob Karimi from Mahabad, Khosrow Basharat, and Davood Abdollahi" from Mahabad, were arrested by security forces.
According to received reports, following fundamentally unfair trials during which their lawyer was prevented from defending them by the court judge, they were sentenced to death in June 2018 by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court on charges of "corruption on earth" and national security-related crimes. After their arrest between mid-December 2009 and early February 2010 in West Azerbaijan province, the seven were transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence detention center in Orumieh and accused of being members of "Salafi groups," a charge they all denied.
In July 2018, another court in West Azerbaijan province sentenced Kamran Shaykha to death on charges of intentional murder of a man who died in a car collision, and Anwar Khazri and Khosrow Basharat were sentenced to imprisonment as his accomplices.
Despite numerous serious violations of fair trial standards, in September 2020, Branch 38 of the Supreme Court rejected their request for a retrial. On February 3, 2021, Branch 41 of the Supreme Court upheld the sentences issued against these seven prisoners.