University student sentenced to death in northwestern Iran
Washington, 12 August (IranVNC)—Iran has sentenced to death 26-year-old Habib-Allah Latifi, a student at the University of Ilam, for “support of anti-Islamic Republic combatant groups”, Latifi’s lawyer was informed today.
By: IranVNC
Published: Wednesday, August 13, 2008
23:44GMT—7:44PM/EST
IRAN – KURDISTAN – DEATH SENTENCE
Washington, 12 August (IranVNC)—Iran has sentenced to death 26-year-old Habib-Allah Latifi, a student at the University of Ilam, for “support of anti-Islamic Republic combatant groups”, Latifi’s lawyer was informed today.
According to the Amir Kabir University student newsletter [AUT News], Latifi, a social activist, was arrested between September and October of last year in his hometown of Sanadaj, the capital of Iran’s northwestern province of Kurdistan.
Nemat Ahmadi, Latifi’s defense attorney, told AUT News that Latifi “was tortured and experienced kidney bleeding and pulmonary irritation after his arrest in the Intelligence Office in Sanandaj.”
Latifi is the third social and political activist to be sentenced to death in Kurdistan Province in recent days. Anvar Hossein Panahi and Arsalan Oliaei were sentenced on similar charges last week in Sanandaj.
The European Union said in a statement on 6 August that it was “greatly disturbed” by human rights violations against members of Iran’s civil society, particularly in Kurdistan Province.
Sources: Amir Kabir University student newsletter, Presidency of the European Union website
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(Original article written in Persian.)