You can imagine how those who were among the minorities living in Iran are relieved that they escaped when they hear of something like this.
6 March 2015, 15:56 UTC
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We rarely hear a first-hand account of those languishing on death row in Iran. But a letter has just emerged from Hamed Ahmadi, a man executed on Wednesday 4 March after a grossly unfair trial. It gives a rare glimpse of the agony endured by those prisoners who know all is about to end.
“It is all finished”, the guard said, confirming the worst.
On the other side of the thick brick wall of Raja’i Shahr prison in Karaj, west of Teheran, are the bodies of six Sunni men from Iran’s Kurdish minority, each hanging from a noose.
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https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2015/03/letter-from-the-gallows-in-iran
- Letter from the gallows in Iran: “I felt the shadow of execution over my head”
6 March 2015, 15:56 UTC
Picture: APGraphicsBank
We rarely hear a first-hand account of those languishing on death row in Iran. But a letter has just emerged from Hamed Ahmadi, a man executed on Wednesday 4 March after a grossly unfair trial. It gives a rare glimpse of the agony endured by those prisoners who know all is about to end.
“It is all finished”, the guard said, confirming the worst.
On the other side of the thick brick wall of Raja’i Shahr prison in Karaj, west of Teheran, are the bodies of six Sunni men from Iran’s Kurdish minority, each hanging from a noose.
Continue reading at:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2015/03/letter-from-the-gallows-in-iran