Two Kurdish journalists face a death row
— Firman Firdaus • August 2nd, 2007
From IPS News:
Kurdish human rights and political groups have launched an Internet campaign Internet to save the lives of Adnan Hasanpoor and Abdolvahed (Hiva) Bootimar, two Iranian Kurdish journalists who were sentenced to death on Jul. 16 by a revolutionary tribunal in the Iranian Kurdish city of Marivan. Hasanpoor was found guilty of ‘moharebe’ (taking up arms against the Islamic state) and espionage. The charge of espionage rested on telephone interviews he gave to the foreign media, including the Voice of America, his lawyer was quoted as saying by the Iranian Labour News Agency. Bootimar was also tried on the charge of moharebe, fellow Kurdish journalist Khosrow Kurdpoor told IPS. Kurdpoor, who runs the Mukrian News website, was quoting the lawyer who represented the two journalists. Reporters Without Borders (RSF - Reporters sans frontières), the international press freedom watchdog, has voiced deep concern over the sentences of the two journalists and appealed to the international community to ask Iran to reverse its decision and refrain from executing the two men “who only exercised their right to inform their fellow citizens”.
Well, the decision to put that two journalist in a death sentence is a rather to much. The Iranian government must undergo more comprehensive and accurate investigation before such a decision. It’s human’s life for God sake!
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