Iran: Further information: Kurdish man and woman risk execution

Index Number: MDE 13/006/2011
Date Published: 14 January 2011
Categories: Iran

Hossein Khezri, a member of Iran’s Kurdish minority, is at imminent risk of execution. He has been transferred from Oromieh prison in north-west Iran to Tehran, the capital. On 13 January 2011, officials of the Oromieh Revolutionary Court informed Hossein Khezri’s brother that the execution order from the Prosecutor’s Office had been received.