{"id":50948,"date":"2010-12-25T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/12\/25\/hrw-demands-iran-to-rescind-execution-order-for-kurdish-student\/"},"modified":"2010-12-26T22:51:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T18:51:19","slug":"hrw-demands-iran-to-rescind-execution-order-for-kurdish-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/12\/25\/hrw-demands-iran-to-rescind-execution-order-for-kurdish-student.html","title":{"rendered":"HRW Demands Iran to Rescind Execution Order for Kurdish Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian judiciary should immediately rescind the execution order for a Kurdish student convicted after an unfair trial, Human Rights Watch said today. Several days ago authorities informed Habibollah Latifi&#8217;s lawyer that Latifi would be hanged at Sanandaj prison in Kurdistan province on the morning of December 26, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>On October 23, 2007, security forces arrested Latifi, a law student at Azad University in the western Iranian province of Ilam, for his alleged activities on behalf of &#8220;anti-revolutionary&#8221; groups. After local intelligence agents detained and interrogated Latifi for more than four months, authorities transferred him to Sanandaj prison. According to several media reports, Latifi&#8217;s family and sources close to his family have alleged that intelligence agents subjected Latifi to torture during the investigation phase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The circumstances surrounding Latifi&#8217;s arrest, detention, and conviction strongly suggest that the Iranian authorities have violated his fundamental rights,&#8221; said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. &#8220;As in numerous previous security cases, intelligence agents appear to have subjected Latifi to torture and a court sentenced him to death without any convincing evidence against him. The head of Iran&#8217;s judiciary should immediately rescind the execution order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latifi&#8217;s family and sources close to his family have alleged that intelligence agents subjected Latifi to torture&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}