PJAK calls for strong response to Iranian executions
PJAK calls for strong response to Iranian executions
The Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan, (PJAK), has threatened Iran with a "strong response" after the execution of a Kurdish political prisoner and called for a week of action against the "massacres, betrayals and village guards.They aim to silence the Kurdish political prisoners with executions, torture and other inhuman treatment and to break the resistance of our people for freedom," PJAK said in a statement in response to the execution of Hossein Khezri by the regime in the central prison of Orumieh, in Iranian Kurdistan.
Khezri, a Kurdish political prisoner, arrested in 2008 and sentenced to death for belonging to PJAK during a 5-minute hearing, was executed Jan. 15. This is the eighth Kurdish prisoner executed since 2007 for "suspected links" with this organization.
"But the heroic attitude of our comrade, Hossein Khezri, proved once again that the Islamic Republic will not break the political prisoners, "added the Kurdish organization.
PJAK threatened a "strong response" to make the Iranian regime "feel sorry" for all its crimes.
The Kurdish organization has also called for a week of action, between 15-22 January, against the "massacres, betrayals and village guards."
The PJAK had already warned the Iranian regime on 24 December of reprisals in case of the execution of Kurdish prisoners. "Our decision of the cease-fire and our statement for peace in Iran, do not mean that our movement will remain silent against the Iranian regime's crimes," the statement said.
Founded in 2004 and now very active in Iranian Kurdistan, the political and military organization has been observing a cease-fire unilaterally since 2009.
PJAK released a peace declaration in October 2010 for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question. Seven demands were made in this statement, including an end to military operations, the right to mother-tongue education, freedom of opinion and association, the release of political prisoners and the abolition of the death penalty.
The organization wants to establish Kurdish in an Iran with a "democratic system in which all citizens, Iranians, Kurds, Azeris, Baluchis, Turkmens, Arabs and other ethnic groups entering in this democratic system could have self-government."
Khezri, a Kurdish political prisoner, arrested in 2008 and sentenced to death for belonging to PJAK during a 5-minute hearing, was executed Jan. 15. This is the eighth Kurdish prisoner executed since 2007 for "suspected links" with this organization.
"But the heroic attitude of our comrade, Hossein Khezri, proved once again that the Islamic Republic will not break the political prisoners, "added the Kurdish organization.
PJAK threatened a "strong response" to make the Iranian regime "feel sorry" for all its crimes.
The Kurdish organization has also called for a week of action, between 15-22 January, against the "massacres, betrayals and village guards."
The PJAK had already warned the Iranian regime on 24 December of reprisals in case of the execution of Kurdish prisoners. "Our decision of the cease-fire and our statement for peace in Iran, do not mean that our movement will remain silent against the Iranian regime's crimes," the statement said.
Founded in 2004 and now very active in Iranian Kurdistan, the political and military organization has been observing a cease-fire unilaterally since 2009.
PJAK released a peace declaration in October 2010 for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question. Seven demands were made in this statement, including an end to military operations, the right to mother-tongue education, freedom of opinion and association, the release of political prisoners and the abolition of the death penalty.
The organization wants to establish Kurdish in an Iran with a "democratic system in which all citizens, Iranians, Kurds, Azeris, Baluchis, Turkmens, Arabs and other ethnic groups entering in this democratic system could have self-government."
