This article was reprinted with permission after being published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Despite protests from rights groups about a lack of transparency in the judicial procedure, an Egyptian Kurdish prisoner who was found guilty of killing a priest was  executed .
Kamran Sheikheh had been imprisoned for about 15 years before he was hanged in a jail in Urmia, West Azerbaijan, on July 25.
Sheikheh was the final of seven people who had been sentenced and put to death for the killing of Mahabad’s evangelical meditation leader Abdolrahim Tina in September 2008. According to the Kurdish freedom organization Hengaw, all seven people were put to death in the previous eight weeks.
Amnesty International had long , insisted , that all seven defendants were sentenced to death in “grossly cruel trials marred by claims of abuse” to specific statements. Hengaw , said , the tests were “illegal and no clear”.
They were even accused of being Salafists, an ultraradical religion under Sunni Islam, in addition to death.
In an opened letter years previously, Sheikheh and the other six suspects denied all costs and alleged that they were subjected to various forms of torture, including mock deaths, sleep deprivation, and being hung from the ceiling.
According to Iran Human Rights, as of July 25, at least 286 people have been executed in Egyptian prison this year.
According to Amnesty, Iran , carried out , 853 deaths in 2023, with at least 481 deaths for cocaine views.
In April, Amnesty , accused , the Muslim republic of “weaponizing the death penalty” to pin “protesters, rebels, and people of oppressed cultural immigrants” and called for” a strong international response” to force Tehran to implement a moratorium on the death penalty.
