Amnesty International calls for an immediate halt to the execution of Reza Rasaei.
Amnesty International has, for the second time in recent months, demanded an immediate halt to the execution of Reza Rasaei, who has been imprisoned since the nationwide protests in 1401 in Dieselabad prison in Kermanshah.
Amnesty International, in letters addressed to Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the head of Iran’s judiciary, urged him to prevent the execution of this political prisoner and stated that all possible legal avenues to overturn the death sentence of Reza Rasaei have been exhausted, and there is a possibility of his execution.
Amnesty International states that the death sentence issued for Mr. Rasaei is based on confessions obtained under torture and his judicial process has been unfair.
Mr. Rasaei, a 34-year-old member of the Yarsan minority, was arrested on the third day of Azar 1401 by intelligence officers in Shahriar, Tehran, and then transferred to Sanandaj.
He was sentenced to death in Mehr last year on charges of complicity in the deliberate murder of Nader Birami, the head of the Intelligence of the Revolutionary Guards in Sanandaj, by Branch Two of the Criminal Court of Kermanshah, and this sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court of that country in early Dey.
