According to a release published by a credible local source, six people from the political prisoners of Kurdistan were executed on Tuesday, 8 October 2002.

In this release published by a group calling itself “Associates of Karim Toujhali” [an executed member of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan] has come: In the morning of Tuesday, 8 October 2002, a group of Kurdish political prisoners, after withstanding many years of interrogation, torture and imprisonment, were sent to the death rows. This release along with referring to their published warnings regarding the danger of execution prior to this new wave of execution, adds: unfortunately, so far only the names of two of these six victims have been identified. These two were hamza Ghaderi, 21 years old married, from Sardasht (Iranian Kurdistan) with a young girl child(who had not been born prior to his captivity), and Jalal Zevayie, 27 years old, married also from Sradasht. This report also adds: the bodies of the executed were given back to their relatives at 11:00 at night, and they were forced to bury them immediately. Any funerals for the dead were also prohibited.

At the end of this release has come: In 23 January 2002, along with the trip of the UN Secretary-general to Iran, Karim Toujhali and two other were executed, and now with the trip of the British Foreign Secretary to Tehran, one of the matters that must be addressed to the Iranian officials, respect for human rights, such criminal acts are committed.

PDKI Canada