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Iran regime executes man despite appeal by rights group
NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime on Saturday executed student Rashid Kouhi despite an appeal by Amnesty International for the sentence to be halted.
Mr. Kouhi, 36, was executed earlier in the day on Saturday in Rasht’s Lakan Prison in Gilan Province, northern Iran, sources said.
Family members of Rashid Kouhi received a call from prison authorities on Thursday informing them that they should go to Lakan Prison to have a final meeting with him on Friday before his execution the following day.
Rashid Kouhi was arrested at a checkpoint in Roudbar, Gilan province on August 24, 2011.
"The officers who stopped him conducted a search of his bag where they found 800 grams of crystal meth. He was a student at the time. He was tried and sentenced to death following a grossly unfair trial by a Revolutionary Court in Roudbar in February 2012," according to Amnesty International.
"The court’s verdict, which has been reviewed by Amnesty International, is less than a page long and does not contain adequate reasoning. He did not have access to a lawyer during questioning and met a state appointed lawyer for the first time during his trial. He was held in Roudbar for two years before being taken to Lakan Prison in Rasht."
Rashid Kouhi was denied the right to appeal his death sentence.
“It is appalling that Rashid Kouhi has been denied the right to an appeal which is a fundamental element of the right to a fair trial. The Iranian authorities must urgently halt his execution and give him a chance to appeal his death sentence in a fair trial without recourse to the death penalty. Failing to do so will be an irreversible injustice,” said Said Boumedouha.
http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/huma...y-rights-group
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