Amin Abdollahi was originally sentenced to 20 years in prison, but on 16 January a court sentenced him to death, on charges of “acting against national security and waging war on God.” The same court changed Mr. Mohammadzadeh's sentence from 32-year prison to death.
These two death sentences have increased the number of Kurdish political prisoners on death row to twenty. The other prisoners are: Zeinab Jalalian, Shirin Alam-Hoei, Shirkoo Moa'refi, Habib Latifi, Sami Hosseini, Jamal Mohammadi, Rostam Alkia, Rashid Akhkandi, Hossein Khezri, Farzad Kamangir, Ali Heydarian, Farhad Vakili, Mostafa Salimi, Anvar Rostami, Iraj Mohammadi, Mohammad Amin-Agoshi, Ahmad Poladkhani, Hassan Talei.
The Iranian Resistance calls on international human rights organizations, particularly the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and relevant UN rapporteurs and working groups to take immediate measures to put an end to barbaric death sentences in Iran and free political prisoners in that country.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 20, 2010