MADRID Jan. 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Supreme Court of Iran has confirmed the death sentence against the Kurdish humanitarian worker and activist Pajshan Azizi for “armed insurrection” and “membership in opposition groups”, as announced by her lawyer, Amir Raesian, who has denounced irregularities in the process. judicial.
“Azizi was not a member of any military group nor did he have any military activity. This sentence was handed down against a fair trial and without taking into account the objections of the case. (The ruling) has been communicated today. We will immediately request a new trial “, the lawyer has expressed through his profile on the social network X.
In an interview with the reformist newspaper Shargh Daily, Raesian explained that the Supreme Court “has not responded to any of the appeals raised in the case,” noting that they have “been ignored.” “No attention has been paid to the deficiencies of the investigation, no attention has been paid to the evidence that showed that Azizi’s case was not suitable for a death sentence,” he said.
In this sense, he explained that the activities of the convicted woman in northern Syria, especially in the refugee camps, “were peaceful activities that were not fundamentally political and focused on providing help” to the victims of state attacks. Islamic. Thus, he noted that “the accusation of a criminal act had no legal basis”, while “she was arrested without a weapon and had never used a weapon before her arrest.” Furthermore, he insisted that “when he was present in the Kurdish region of Syria he was in danger of attack by Islamic State militants.”
“We will immediately present a request for a new trial before the country’s Supreme Court, and we hope that the section to which the case is referred will take into account the considerations, avoid confirmation of the sentence issued and correct the course of the case,” he confirmed, after pointing to a “ruling fundamentally contrary to the country’s judicial practice.”
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