Ali Heydarian

Kurdish human rights activist, Ali Heydarian, was arrested in August 2006. Mr. Heydarian was also charged with membership in an illegal Kurdish organization in a show trial – like many other political prisoners in Iran – that denied him access to his own lawyer and in which proper evidence was not provided against him. After 17 months in prison, Heydarian was condemned to death under the charge of Mohareb (Enemy of God) on 29 February 2008. Heydarian was held in Rajai-Shahr Prison near Karaj, where he was psychologically and physically tortured and was constantly denied medical treatment. Ali was executed along with other Kurdish political prisoners on May 9, 2010 in Tehran.