On Monday at dawn, Iran's terrorist regime carried out the execution of two prisoners in Urmia Central Prison, despite the official annulment of the sentence.
Omid Behzad, a 21-year-old Kurdish student from Urmia, had been arrested on charges of spying for Israel; merely for using a VPN and being a member of the Iran International Telegram channel.
Pouria Safvati, on the same charges, had forced confessions extracted from him under torture and was later executed.
Although the Supreme Court had annulled Omid's sentence on Saturday, the security agencies disregarded the law and carried out the execution themselves.
The bodies of the two prisoners have not been handed over to their families, a brutal tactic of the regime to increase the psychological suffering of the victims' relatives.
This execution, without a fair trial and based on forced confessions, is a clear example of state murder and a violation of the right to life and justice.
Iran's terrorist regime continues to repress its own citizens and use torture to intimidate and eliminate its opponents, a crime against humanity.
