Penahi As Well As Muradi Cousins Executed in Iran

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In addition to Kurdish activist Hüseyin Penahi, who has been executed on charges of "Opposing Allah" and "being a member of an illegal organization", Lokman Muradi and Zanyar Muradi were executed yesterday (September 8) in Iran.

According to Yüksekova News, charged with "Fighting against Allah", Lokman and Zanyar Muradi were sentenced to capital punishment in 2013.

The cousins were accused of killing a prominent religious person in province of Merivan in Kurdistan. Besides, they were allegedly running armed operations in the Kurdish opposition group called Komala

According to Amnesty International, 507 people were executed in 2017 in Iran.