Family members of Kurdish prisoners express their concern about planned executions
In an open letter the Association of Family Members of Kurdish Prisoners express their concern about planned executions of Kurdish prisoners in Snne (Sanandaj). Different sources in Iranian Kurdistan has claimed that the head of the judiciary branch of the Islamic Republic have sent a secret letter to its officials in Snne demanding that all political prisoners in the city be executed within a couple of days, after that a number of the regimes officials was assassinated.
The regime has in different statements blamed different Kurdish and Islamist organisations for the assassinations, but no known group has taken responsibility for the assassinations. Iranian and Kurdish media reported that an previously unknown group, called Leshkeri Peshmergei Kurdistan, took responsibility for the some of the assassinations but the group later stated in an press release that they had nothing to do with the assassinations.
All of the known Kurdish political organisations have stated that they are not responsible for the assassinations in Snne. Many of the Kurdish organisations are blaming the Islamic Republic for the assassinations, believing that the regime is attempting to eliminate its own officials in order to have a pretext to crack down on Kurdish political activists.
The Association of Family Members of Kurdish Prisoners express concern about the resent events and calls the growing military presence in Snne a conspiracy, linking it to the assassinations. The organisation states that the ever increasing number of Kurds being detained for alleged participation in the assassinations is worrisome, but they state that what is more dangerous is the decision of the head of the judiciary to execute Kurdish political prisoners.
Furthermore, the Kurdish organization states that the regimes decision to sentence Habib Latifi, a 26-year-old university student, and Ehsan Ftahyan a 22-year-old Kurd to death, are evidence to the decision of the head of the judiciary to start executing Kurdish political prisoners. In the final sentence of the letter the Kurdish organisation writes that the Kurdish people have in different periods of history shown that they will stand up against injustice and that they will not be silenced and that they are ready to sacrifice their blood and die to struggle against oppression.
