Ali Heydariyan
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Ali Heydariyan is an Iranian Kurdish activist, who has been sentenced to death
by an Islamic Revolutionary Court
, for allegedly being a member of the armed group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Amnesty International
has called for his sentence to be commuted.
Capital punishment
Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally...
by an Islamic Revolutionary Court
Islamic Revolutionary Court
Islamic Revolutionary Court is a special court in the Islamic Republic of Iran designed to try those suspected of smuggling, blaspheming, inticing violence or trying to overthrow the Iranian government...
, for allegedly being a member of the armed group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Amnesty International
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
has called for his sentence to be commuted.