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Halt Imminent Execution of Kurdish Student Habibollah Latifi
Habibollah Latifi’s lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he has been served with his client’s execution orders and the Kurdish university student will be hung on Sunday, 26 December.
Habibollah Latifi is a university student from Kurdistan who has been sentenced to death on charge of Moharebeh, enmity with God. He is currently imprisoned at the Sanandaj Prison. Several sources have reported Latifi’s various illnesses such as intestinal infection, heart problems, and kidney failure.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for an immediate halt to this unfair sentence, and for the case to be reviewed by a judge independent of security forces. The Campaign believes this ruling must be challenged to bring attention to the ever-increasing influence of intelligence-security forces over the Iranian Judiciary and in determining outcomes of trials. The Campaign believes these intelligence-security forces are ultimately pushing towards large scale political executions and any silence in the face of such politically-motivated executions could lead to devastating results in the condition of Iranian political prisoners.
Habibollah Latifi was arrested on 23 October 2007, and was transferred to Sanandaj Prison. News of Latifi’s execution sentence circulated on 7 June 2010. His family have requested clemency for him on several occasions, but they have not been successful.
The court’s ruling, in order to justify the charge of Moharebeh, alleges actions by Latifi that he has vehemently denied. Accusations leveled against Latifi include involvement in several acoustic explosions, as well as filming and photographing them, in the city of Sanandaj. It also includes an assassination attempt on the life of the Sanandaj Prosecutor, as well as an attack on a local police station. During his trials Habibollah Latifi strongly denied involvement in any of these events. His lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, has told Rooz Online news website that his client has repeatedly denied these charges in court and during interrogations. Latifi told the court and his interrogators that he was not only not involved in the explosion of the Sanandaj Prosecutor’s car and the attack on the police station which killed a police officer, he was not even living in Sanandaj at the time, as he was living in a different location.
26 Comments
Sheida
This is Really Sad..what do they do..punish anyone just because the feel the need to inflict pain..Latifi wasn’t even living in Sanandaj..This is so ridiculous! May God Protect this young man and may he be freed.I Will definitely be praying.
Hi, I think for the title, “Iranian Kurd Student” is more better. He is an Iranian citizen and also Kurds live in Iran (Persia), Iraq, Turkey and Syria.
Frederick (Freddie) John Katz III
This young man does not deserve to die. He has done nothing wrong. He has just exercised his inaliable right to free speech and protest to an unjust government. Why does not the West protest the Islamofacist Government’s genocide of its own people? And if we, as a society, stand idly by, we are complicit in this. STAND UP PEOPLE and help save this man’s life. MR. Ban ki Moom and President Obama, where are you both?
Frederick (Freddie) John Katz III
This man has not done these trumped up charges. If you oppose the facist government of Iran, you oppose God. the ironic thing is, it is the facist government of Iran, with their hidious crimes against its own people, that opposes the will of God, Where are the Western leaders. History is repeating itself. Silence is complicity. Just like during WWII with the Nazi genocide of the Jews and then during the 90s Bosnian Serb genocide of the Bosnian Muslims. We never seem to learn from history, or shall I say, we never seem to care.
Goli Gilani
Stop Killing Innocent People.
Qasim Marzani
we are, as Kurdish family strongly protest death execution of Kurdish prosoner in Iran Habibulah Latifi, a university student from Kurdistan . we find the death execution of this civil activist is an obvious human violation. we encaurouge anyone to put all their efforts to prevent death esecution against Habibulla Latifi and act for an immediate halt to this unfair sentenceand and put more pressure on Iranian regime to quit abandon this action.
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Bali Irani
Please help and stop this unfair sentence. Iran’s current government openly are killing innocent people who bravely ask for Human Rights in Iran. Please don’t watch the lives of so many innocent people be hang in Iran…..
Hiwa Rebwar
This is very brutual and outrageous. Stop any execution.
forugh
plz stop killing Habibollah Latifi
Nar30S
Habibollah Latifi muSSSSSSSt be alive, he is not criminal man, he is not murder, his crime is only demand of freedom!!!!!!!
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Farah
Killing the best sons & daughters of Iran must be stopped immediately.
Davayeh Dard in Mellat , Koshtan Bishtar Nist.
Where are these so called Human Right Activists? Habibollah Latifi’s death will be yet another shame on our humanity.
samrand
Stop the Murder of Kurdish Student by the Iranian Regime
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mohamad barirani
we protest the kiling a kordish university student civil activist (habibulah latifi) presoner in iran please help and stop that
We All Are "HaBiB"
Save Habib Latifi!!!!!!!حبیب لطیفی را اعدام نکنید
rozi
free habibolah
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اعدام نهههههههههههه
Solely hearing the news makes me feel depressed. Maybe frustration would be a more precise expression to use. My question is, how can we stop this? What shall I do to prevent such things from happening and save the innocent people? I am an activist myself over here, but just using that name alongside with the people, who are actually dying for their beliefs makes me feel ashamed of myself and the free world allowing such shameful executions to happen…
Cees from Holland
Stop these outrageous killings !
No more killings in the name of (any) God worldwide !
Freedom of speach !
Save the life of Habibollah Latifi !
Kawah Ardalan
Stop the Murder of Kurdish Student by the Iranian Regime
Pejman remember we don’t need your help, so it is not ne necessary add the iranian word. We are Kurds so we don’t want make a new identity for ourselves. We are happy with being Kurds.
Long live the Kurdistan
mr.Habibollah Latifi is innocent.it is the brutal,barbaric,backwarded islamic regime in iran ,that must be brought to to justice for the crimes committed against huanity for last 31 years.only the will & people’s power can overthrough the fanatical regime that has no any respect for human life.hope to see the collapse of islamic regime in near future as we did see the collapse of monachs in 1979 uprising!
Nein zu Hinrichtung von kurdischen Studenten Habibollah Latifi
rahim
This young man does not deserve to die. He has done nothing wrong. He has just exercised his inaliable right to free speech and protest to an unjust government
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Halt Imminent Execution of Kurdish Student Habibollah Latifi