Diyarbakır Bar launched campaign for Kurds risking executions

Diyarbakır Bar launched campaign for Kurds risking executions

The Diyarbakır Bar has launched a campaign inviting people and associations to write to the Iranian government condemning the death penalty and asking to stop executions.

In the letter, to be addressed to the Iranian ambassador in Ankara, the Bar ask about the fate of Zaniar Moradi and Loghman Moradi, two Kurdish nationals of Iran who are under the imminent risk of execution. 

The text is as follows:

"I am writing to request your urgent intervention to stop the execution of these two Kurdish men.
According to the reliable human rights organizations, more than twenty Iranian citizens were executed last weekend. Habibollah Golparipour, a Kurdish activist and political prisoner was also executed despite many calls from international human rights organizations.
Death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. Currently, Iran is claimed to have the second-highest execution rate in the world (after China). I condemn this degrading practice and protest your Government for carrying out these executions.
I would like to express that the continuing execution of Kurdish political prisoners creates an anger against Islamic Republic of Iran and inflicts irreparable damages to the close cultural and historical relationship of Iranian and Kurdish people.
I urge the Iranian authorities to abolish death penalty and to stop the execution of Zaniar Moradi and Loghman Moradi, overrule the decision of death penalty and conduct an independent investigation into their trial".