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Stop the executions of Pakhshan Azizi & Verisheh Moradi

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I call on the Iranian Embassy in the UK to urgently demand that Iranian authorities halt the executions of Pakhshan Azizi and Verisheh Moradi, quash their convictions, and release them immediately.

Both must be protected from torture and ill-treatment, granted adequate healthcare, and allowed regular visits from family and lawyers. An independent investigation into their torture allegations must be conducted, and those responsible held accountable.

I also urge the Iranian Embassy in the UK to call for an immediate stop to all executions in Iran, with the goal of completely ending the death penalty.

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Pakhshan Azizi and Verisheh Moradi, both from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish minority, are at imminent risk of execution in Iran.

Pakhshan, a humanitarian aid worker, is being punished just for helping women and children displaced by ISIS. Verisheh, a member of the group East Kurdistan Free Woman Society, is facing the death penalty following a grossly unfair trial.

Since their arrests in separate cases in August 2023, both have revealed being tortured and otherwise ill-treated, including gender-based violence, and held in solitary confinement. Their trials were deeply unjust, and they are at grave risk of execution.

In the aftermath of the #WomanLifeFreedom uprising, Iran’s authorities have intensified the use of the death penalty as a tool of repression and fear, including against women detained on politically-motivated charges. In 2023 alone, the Iranian authorities executed at least 853 people—the highest number in eight years. Now, Pakhshan and Verisheh’s lives are on the line.

We don’t have time to wait. We must act now.

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