Request for retrial of Pakshan Azizi rejected

Request for retrial of Pakshan Azizi rejected

Mazyar Tatayi, the lawyer of Kurdish political prisoner Pakshan Azizi, announced on his social media account that the request for a retrial had been rejected for the second time. Tatayi stated that the Iranian court dismissed the lawyers’ defense as 'inappropriate' without even reviewing Pakshan Azizi’s case file and rejected the request for a new trial. Who is Pakshan Azizi? Kurdish journalist and activist Pakshan Azizi was detained in Tehran o…

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi alerted about the imminent execution of Kurdish activist Pakhshan Azizi, whose death penalty has been confirmed by the Supreme Court of Iran. “Azizi, held in Evin prison in Tehran, faces the threat of execution at any time,” warned the Narges Foundation, led by the Nobel Prize family, and condemned the sentence against Kurdish activist, accused of “rebellion.”

Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, warned today of the imminent execution of the Kurdish aid worker and activist Pakhshan Azizi, whose death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court of Iran. “Azizi, detained in Evin prison in Tehran, faces the threat of carrying out the death penalty at any time,” warned the Narges Foundation, managed by the Nobel Peace Prize family, in a statement, condemning the sentence of A…

For the second time, Pakhshan Azizi’s Request for Retrial Rejected by the Supreme Court

HRANA News Agency – Maziar Tataei, attorney-at-law, has announced that the Supreme Court has rejected the second request for a retrial filed on behalf of Pakhshan Azizi, a political prisoner sentenced to death. Maziar Tataei, Azizi’s defense attorney, stated in his announcement that the reviewing branch of the Supreme Court dismissed the second retrial request submitted by her legal team without reviewing the case file and declared the defense a…