On the early morning of Thursday, July 25, 2024, the death sentence of Kamran Sheikheh, a Sunni political prisoner from Mahabad, was carried out after 15 years of imprisonment in Urmia Central Prison. Kamran Sheikheh, 40 years old, has been imprisoned for nearly 15 years in Ghezel Hesar and Urmia prisons. Prior to this, six of his co-defendants were executed in GHezel Hesar prison.
Kamran Sheikheh, a Kurdish political prisoner, was born in 1984 in Mahabad. He holds a high school diploma and is unmarried. He was arrested in 2009 along with six other Sunni individuals from his hometown. They were severely tortured in the Urmia Intelligence Office to extract forced confessions. In March 2016, they were sentenced to death by Judge Mohammad Moghiseh (Naserian), and in June 2018, their death sentences were upheld by the Iranian judiciary.
The charges brought against them include the murder of an Imam of the Friday Prayer in the Rashidin Mosque in Mahabad during the nationwide protests in 2009 and their alleged involvement in the uprising on December 7, 2024. Prior to this, Khosrow Basharat, Anwar khezri, Farhad Salimi, Davood Abdollahi, Ayoub Karimi, and Ghasem Abasteh were executed in Qazalhesar Prison during the past 15 months.
The Iranian judiciary, in a non-transparent process and through an unfair trial marred by pressure from security institutions, sentenced these seven Kurdish political prisoners to execution. And Kamran Sheikheh was the last survivor of this case, who was executed this morning.
